After I came home after watching this movie, I kept on thinking about how great this movie was and I just had to write this so here it goes. Warning: there will be Spoilers...you've been warned So Mad Max: Fury Road debuted on the big screen on May 15, 2015 here in the U.S. "It's been 45 years since the collapse of civilization, and resources such as water, food and oil are scarce. Survivors cling to life at the Citadel, a fortress controlled by the tyrannical Immortan Joe. When Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) leads a band of rebels on a daring escape through the Wasteland, she forges an alliance with haunted loner Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy). Together, they embark on a high-speed race through the desert, pursued relentlessly by the gangs of the apocalypse." Walking into this movie, I heard so much hype about it and when I first saw the trailer, I thought it looked great visually but nothing much afterwards. I wasn't hyped to watch this movie until reviews started pouring in and critics saying how great this movie was. I was curious to see what the hype was so when I left the movie theatre, it truly did live up to the hype While watching this movie, I quickly realized how incredibly beautiful it was shot. Visually, it took my breath away as to how apocalyptic the movie looked and what added the cherry on top to this movie was the soundtrack. Oh my god...it was amazing. We get this very beautiful and moving scene where Furiosa finds out that her home is destroyed and that the Green Place is no longer there. She walks off, needing to be by herself, and she takes off her robotic arm and just plummets into the sand. The music is the only thing that playing until she just yells in pain. With her yelling and the music playing, it just added emphasizes to the scene and made it more compelling. Also, props to Charlize Theron because that scene was one of the best scenes in this whole entire movie. The only critique I had about this movie was that since it was so action-packed, there was no room for character development really. I'm not complaining too much about it, because the scenes that were presented in the movie was breathtaking, but it was missing something though: character development. I mean we see it through Max whose very reserved and never tells Furiosa and the Five Wives his name but he does so in the end when he is giving a blood transfusion to a dying Furiosa. But the character who had the most character development, who is also my favorite character, was Nux. Nux was portrayed by Nicholas Hoult and he did a great job of him. His acting skills really came out as we see him go absolutely mad, but then later on he'll have this emotional scene with Capable, one of the Five Wives, and just add so much more depth into this character. He was raised as a War boy and he thinks it's an honor to die and wants to sacrifice himself to what he believes in. He's a messed-up boy but as the film progresses, he becomes a man whose eyes are transformed into seeing reality and to what is truly happening. It sounds very cliché, but with this movie it doesn't make it cliché. It makes it very honest and very believable reason as to why and how he becomes a man. But oh man, I called it...when his relationship with Capable was developing and he was helping out Max and Furiosa...I called it: he was going to die. I had a gut feeling that he was going to die and I was completely distraught. Towards the end of the movie, I was thinking possibly that I was wrong and I was hoping I was, but it happened. He tells Capable to go and that he'll be right behind her, and that's when I knew he was going to die. Rictus, a character trying to get back the wives, is trying desparately to get them and he is close to, but Nux won't let him. No, he sacrifices himself a and blows up the Rig he's driving which has Rictus on top. And before he blows it up, I believe he whispered Capable's name; I'm really not sure because I was over here feeling the pain of him dying. The acting in this film was absolutely perfect, whether it was Tom Hardy portraying Max or Hugh Keays-Byrne playing Immortan Joe, who by the way was a very convincing and menancing villain in this movie. The acting was perfect all around, even with the supporting characters. Mad Max: Fury Road; a remarkable film that delivered with the amazing shots, action, acting, and most important of all, story. "What a day! What a lovely day!"
