Robbie Collin's review for
The Telegraph
'a Krakatoan eruption of craziness'
"With its spare dialogue and dazzlingly choreographed and edited stunts, Millers film often feels like a great silent movie albeit a very loud one."
"What compounds the fun is Fury Roads wholesale rejection of the generally accepted blockbuster code of conduct, which dictates that expensive films have to be marketable to teenagers but still watchable by eight-year-olds in order to maximise box-office returns. Whether or not Miller was aware of these unspoken conventions, he has ploughed a blazing petrol tanker right through the middle of them. Fury Road takes a Rabelaisian delight in grotesque bodies, and the various ways in which they can be made to splatter, burn and pop.
"Imagine if Cirque du Soleil reenacted a Hieronymus Bosch painting and someone set the theatre on fire. This is more or less what Miller has come up with."
"This is unusually progressive stuff, but it all stirs into the cocktail nicely just as the painterly computer graphics, which provide the films backdrop of whirlwinds and dust-storms, marry surprisingly well with the predominantly practical stunt work. The world of Mad Max has always been welded together from bits of whatever was lying around, and the films brilliance has always been in their welding the ingenious ways in which their scrap-metal parts were combined to create something unthinkable, hilarious or obscene, and often all three."
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