Réalisation:
George MillerPhotographie:
John SealeMusique:
Tom HolkenborgActeurs·trices:
Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Zoë Kravitz, Riley Keough, Josh Helman, Nathan Jones (plus)VOD (4)
Résumés(1)
Hanté par un lourd passé, Mad Max estime que le meilleur moyen de survivre est de rester seul. Cependant, il se retrouve embarqué par une bande qui parcourt le désert à bord d'un véhicule militaire piloté par l'Impératrice Furiosa. Ils fuient la Citadelle où sévit le terrible Immortan Joe qui s'est fait voler un objet irremplaçable. Enragé, ce Seigneur de guerre envoie ses hommes pour traquer les rebelles impitoyablement... (Warner Bros. FR)
(plus)Vidéo (21)
Critiques (20)
Un spectacle d'action légèrement supérieur à la moyenne avec un scénario lamentable (pour ne pas dire inexistant) et des costumes relativement originaux. Sur base des bandes-annonces, il n’était pas question que j’aille voir ce Mad Max au cinéma, mais quand j’ai constaté la frénésie qu’il suscitait, j'ai changé d'avis. Cela dit, rien ne m’a vraiment surpris. L’intrigue avance vigoureusement, l’action est généreusement dosée, la dernière demi-heure m'a sérieusement happé dans le train d’action incessant, mais sans me rendre excessivement euphorique. Pour moi, le film d’action de l’année reste Fast & Furious 7. Ici, je trouve que les talents sont gaspillés avec Tom Hardy dans le rôle d’un taré limite prêt pour l’asile et fort d'un vocabulaire de trente mots, sans parler de Charlize Theron. Mad Max : Fury Road vaut quand même une visite au cinéma.
()
Un défilé d'action en continue hyper stylisé avec une énergie incroyable et un prétendu contenu. Des personnages définis par leur apparence, leur maquillage et leurs costumes. Le classique George Miller a adopté les tendances des blockbusters contemporains (l'audiovisuel écrasant étant plus important que l'intrigue) dans sa vision personnelle d'un monde post-apocalyptique (avec lequel quelqu'un d'autre peut éventuellement trouver une connexion émotionnelle?) et a rempli ce monde de dizaines de détails ingénieux, qui sont sans importance pour l'histoire mais qui font de l'ensemble (associé à cette énergie « over-the-top ») un produit unique de divertissement cinématographique. Le plan de la tête émergeant du sable, le plan de l'année.
()
Every year I see dozens of films in the cinema and many more at home, and only some of the new ones leave me with the feeling that I've watched something special; something that will be talked about in ten years. Fortunately, Mad Max: Fury Road is one of those. The trailers didn't bullshit, this is a brutal action ride from start to finish. When George Miller said his film was going to be one big chase, he wasn't lying. Even more interesting than the action itself, however, which is exquisite, thrilling and visually original, is what surrounds it. The director of Happy Feet has managed to make a new Mad Max that must satisfy fans of the trilogy and newcomers alike. Fury Road is an almost physically uncomfortable film. Whereas other post-apocalyptic films usually have clearly defined good and evil, here there is only madness, and thanks to some of the characters (Nicholas Hoult gets a career-best role) it's almost palpable. It's a cruel world with bizarre rules, fascinating and repulsive at the same time. Good doesn't exist, evil doesn't exist either, all that's left is a fierce fight for survival. And you will be right in the middle of it. Mad Max grabs you at the beginning, then thrills you, disgusts you, horrifies you and fascinates you all the time. And by the end of it, you'll feel like you've seen something special. Not just entertaining or interesting, but truly exceptional.
()
Men in chains. Mad Max: Fury Road is entertaining as a film about a bunch of psychopaths chasing each other through the desert can be. The film’s greatest strength is rooted in its greatest betrayal. For at least half of the film, the titular protagonist is a pacified and passive supporting character who certainly has no bearing on the direction of the story despite introducing it with his own words (unlike in the second Mad Max, the scope of the narrative isn’t tied nearly as closely to Max – rather, we are “insolently” informed of one of his actions only by a big explosion somewhere in the distance). Women are in the driver’s seat, in both the literal and figurative sense. They are beautiful and scantily clad (like most of the other characters, so I wouldn’t lay blame on the film for employing a double standard), but merciless when it comes to men, who are automatically – and for the most part justifiably – perceived as a threat. Max is no exception, as he wouldn’t even have to have a mask on his face or his wrists in shackles to be mistaken for an animal controlled by instinct. While his goal is summed up from beginning to end in a single word (“survive”), Miller makes maximum use of stylistic techniques to ensure that we experience his survival at first hand (the “relieving” silencing of the music). By comparison, the motivations of the savage women have greater depth and raise numerous questions that you normally wouldn’t ask in relation to action blockbusters. ___ All of the men in the film are to a certain extent obsessed with physical strength, destruction and domination. Dominance over women and over their machines, which evidently intoxicates them as effectively as fresh blood does. The deification and fetishisation of high-performance, high-octane machines, with which their drivers would like to merge (spraying their mouths with chrome wheel paint), are in places pushed beyond the boundary of the most off-the-wall comic stylisation (as are the names of the characters, among which only Sillius Soddus and Biggus Dickus are missing), which is somewhat in conflict with the realistic basis of the depicted world and the raw brutality of the violence. Fury Road is sometimes a bit more and sometimes a bit less of an overwrought opera on four wheels, with massive explosions and chainsaw fights instead of arias. Just as Leone’s spaghetti westerns were operas in their own way. The last time I had a comparably intense impression of uninterrupted action that barely gives you time to breathe was when I saw the South Korean pseudo-spaghetti western The Good, the Bad, the Weird (for its pacing and crazy ideas, Fury Road would deserve the subtitle The Very Bad and the Weird). ___ In connection with the ideas of eco-feminism, the women conversely personify care, creation and the effort to restore humanity’s connection to nature (at one of the critical moments, their lives are saved by a tree). They don’t want to change the rules of the existing world, but to build (or perhaps better said, “let sprout”) a new world founded on protection, cooperation and caring instead of war, control and pillage. Their greatest wealth is not weapons or petrol, but planting seeds. The film is not militantly radical in its advocacy for an alternative life principle – instead of complete separation from men, it proposes partial synthesis as a solution – but it still took some proper courage to make the return of a great action hero a hell of a wild feminist ride. (If the picture hadn’t been unpleasantly dark, I wouldn’t have known about the 3D except for one shot.) Appendix: I believe that someone more qualified will write a more analytical text about the editing of the perfectly rhythmised action scenes and the use of characters as orientators, thanks to which the frenzied action is perfectly clear despite the jumps across the axis. 90%
()
(moins)
(plus)
I have not seen such a crazy movie in a while. It almost looks as if George Miller shot his craziest dream the way he’s seen it and lived through it. Nobody talked into it, nobody interfered with it and he just did it exactly the way he wanted. You can feel the madness, helplessness and despair of the post-apocalyptic world even two thousand light years far from you. When it comes to acting, Tom Hardy, Nicholas Hoult and Charlize Theron are a sure bet. Nevertheless, some moments in the movie were so crazy that I was not able to process them and the only thing I was left with after those scenes was a bewildered face which still could not comprehend what it had seen. However, one thing is for certain. I have not seen such a well-filmed action, where digital effects fade in comparison to the real action ride, in a long time. If I even saw anything like that in this millennium. Hard to say. I think I didn’t.
()
Annonces