![]() It is an audacious concept, a two-hour chase scene, cinema as climax instead of building up to one, and Miller - through fiery visuals, progressive thought, compelling if barely defined characters, exquisitely elaborate choreography, and lean, brave screenwriting - evokes a feature-length feeling so few films are able to sustain for more than a few minutes: urgency. ![]() That is its primary purpose, and Mad Max: Fury Road breathlessly, relentlessly, gloriously takes over our brains as we watch, its blistering narrative so propulsive, so revolutionary, so damned smart that it could rip our eyelids off. Now, after the already immortal imprint in our heads of the masterful madness Miller unleashed, it feels like the simplest, most obvious idea in the world: Rubber-band your Iron Man to a drinking straw, kids, because what fun can a chase be without a Polecat or two?Ĭinema exists to evoke.
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