Letterboxd — Your life in film

Still enjoyable on a second viewing - glad they seem to have just left the film as it is rather than making it the foundation of a series of every diminishing returns.

Max simply talks too much, and this one seems to have a plot that would need more than one sentence to explain. Not bad, but my least favourite of the four films by a distance.

This is smashing (haha) stuff - great setting, amazing stunt work, fun cast and Hulk Hogan as the baddie.

First time seeing Mad Max, and I fair enjoyed it. My only experience of the franchise before this was Fury Road, but you can see some of the seeds being planted here, although mostly with the cracking stunts, minimal dialogue for Max and the chat from the baddies.

A sweaty film made for sweaty days. 

A journey about travelling from civilisation (as we’d view it) into the pure darkness of the night. Surreal, haunting, savage. 

I do the Kurtz head rub every time I get a Slack notification.

Very dry, too long, and everyone wants to fuck - just how I like my sci-fi.

It’s wild that any series would release the best film in the franchise six films deep - it’s a rollercoaster of explosions, toilets, Alec Baldwin having an unloaded gun and Henry Cavill’s Justice League ruining soup strainer.

That’s what I’m talking about! Big action and a decent baddie! Along with Fast and the Furious, it’s the only franchise that can escalate this much and still feel like the shark is unjumped.

Much closer to what you’d now expect from the franchise, but the baddy is shite

Not as wild as MI2, not as interesting as MI1 - bit of a dry run for what the series eventually becomes.

Simply the most a film could be before 9/11

A neat thriller, and I’m honestly surprised they didn’t make any sequels.