"Mad Max: Fury Road" R
George Miller returns to Mad Max ion the fourth installment in the movie series, a sort of reboot, as it has been 26 years since the last one. Tom Hardy steps into the role originated by Mel Gibson decades ago, as Mad Max, the ex cop turned drifter in a post nuclear war ravaged Australia. Charlise Theron and Rosey Whitley are there also.
The evil master of a strange gear head city state in a harsh canyon system is keeping slave women to produce offspring and milk for their survival, but when the slaves are broken out of prison in a rumbling tanker truck machine, the evil warlord chases after them with relatives from various local tribes of warrior gear heads! Theron is the driver of the wear machine, with Max along for the ride. Max is meant to pass for the universal donor slave, but he got free and joined the rebels, and befriends them on the road.
Everyone in the movie is insane and loving it, spouting lines about lovely destruction and enjoying rushing into a sandstorm that looks like a nuke went off. The driver, Furina, wants to take the freed women to the green place, and Max and a stowaway are not part of the plan, but they make it to a distant tribe of old biker ladies and they have a mad plan to end it all.
The story is better paced than all of the Fast and Furious movies, and really looks like it works, and each vehicle is different enough you can tell them apart. The villains are interesting and the desperation works well, as it is clear everyone us trying to survive in it and has lost all of their marbles.
Review by Adam Browne
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Review: "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" is slick fantasy twist on comic book villain
"Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" PG 13
The second Marvel collection is nearly over, as Ant Man will be out next to finish the next wave, but there will be more. It's time again for another Avengers from Joss Whedon. This time the gang returns and knocks over the hideout of a notorious bad guy seen in the Winter Soldier, which means you have to have seen it. I have seen it. The story become complicated when Iron Man and Banner/Hulk decide later to just create artificial intelligence over night, rather than Ant Man doing it in his lab as in the comic. Using Jarvis the AI, they hack into the Loki scepter stolen from the raid and activate some kind of brain inside it. This never occurs to them, or to Thor, to be a very bad idea. The energy crystal in it is one of the Infinity Gems from the comics, which also leads somewhere else. The energy is somehow conscious and alive, and it soon breaks out.
Later on the guys are having a party, Black Widow is flirting with Hulk, for no apparent reason at all, as she flirted with Captain America in Winter Soldier and it meant nothing. Although she makes a case for being a bad butt kicking super spy allegedly sterilized by the secret order, she is clearly a few months pregnant. The actress is that is. (She was actually but the character was not supposed to be). Actually in the comics she is not sterile.
The boys joke about lifting Thor's hammer as though it is a sex joke, which is something they would do, while drinking, and that's when Ultron appears as a butt kicking robot that kicks the tar out of the room and then declares he will pull off his strings and end the tyranny of the Avengers and of Stark, or Iron Man. Then he leaves.
Later he hacks into the internet, which is not self aware, and attempts to create a new body for himself to destroy humanity, while programming and building a city sized 'vibranium' alien metal rock asteroid thing out of a city so he can later chuck it at the Earth. You know, stuff villains do.
The cocoon or pod the Avengers try to capture eventually becomes important to the team and to the possible defeat of their nemesis. (No spoilers).
The story is sharp but not quite as fun as the last one, Winter Soldier or Thor the Dark World. Guardians of the Galaxy though was brilliant. The move can be best enjoyed on big screens though.
Review by Adam Browne
The second Marvel collection is nearly over, as Ant Man will be out next to finish the next wave, but there will be more. It's time again for another Avengers from Joss Whedon. This time the gang returns and knocks over the hideout of a notorious bad guy seen in the Winter Soldier, which means you have to have seen it. I have seen it. The story become complicated when Iron Man and Banner/Hulk decide later to just create artificial intelligence over night, rather than Ant Man doing it in his lab as in the comic. Using Jarvis the AI, they hack into the Loki scepter stolen from the raid and activate some kind of brain inside it. This never occurs to them, or to Thor, to be a very bad idea. The energy crystal in it is one of the Infinity Gems from the comics, which also leads somewhere else. The energy is somehow conscious and alive, and it soon breaks out.
Later on the guys are having a party, Black Widow is flirting with Hulk, for no apparent reason at all, as she flirted with Captain America in Winter Soldier and it meant nothing. Although she makes a case for being a bad butt kicking super spy allegedly sterilized by the secret order, she is clearly a few months pregnant. The actress is that is. (She was actually but the character was not supposed to be). Actually in the comics she is not sterile.
The boys joke about lifting Thor's hammer as though it is a sex joke, which is something they would do, while drinking, and that's when Ultron appears as a butt kicking robot that kicks the tar out of the room and then declares he will pull off his strings and end the tyranny of the Avengers and of Stark, or Iron Man. Then he leaves.
Later he hacks into the internet, which is not self aware, and attempts to create a new body for himself to destroy humanity, while programming and building a city sized 'vibranium' alien metal rock asteroid thing out of a city so he can later chuck it at the Earth. You know, stuff villains do.
The cocoon or pod the Avengers try to capture eventually becomes important to the team and to the possible defeat of their nemesis. (No spoilers).
The story is sharp but not quite as fun as the last one, Winter Soldier or Thor the Dark World. Guardians of the Galaxy though was brilliant. The move can be best enjoyed on big screens though.
Review by Adam Browne
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