There’s no other word for it; Fury “Road is a complete circus. Not "circus" in the P.T. Barnum sense, though that probably wouldn’t be entirely unfair either. More in the Roman sense, referring to places like the Circus Maximus, where chariot-borne gladiators engaged in high-speed duels to the death; brutal, fast-paced spectacles of color and thunder, played to the roar of enthralled audiences, delighting unapologetically in the absurdity of themselves.
Does that seem a little bit old-school? It shouldn’t. George Miller deliberately filmed Fury Road as a follow-up to The Road Warrior, and based a lot of the visuals and styling on the classic Japanese anime Akira. But he could just as well have drawn Fury Road from 80 B.C. than from 1980 A.D. From The Colosseum, with bits of Sparta, Greek naval warfare, and even a bit of Exodus thrown in for good measure.
So, how did Miller work this circus together for Fury Road? Was it really worth the three-decade wait? And how did Bane fare as Mel Gibson’s replacement? Read on.
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Mad Max: Fury Road - Review originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 20 May 2015 17:00 EST.
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