Wednesday 20 July 2016

Furious Road: Not furious and there aren't any roads in it.

"THE WORLD IS OVER...
THE BATTLE TO SURVIVE HAS JUST BEGUN"
 "Sol, a bold fugitive lost in a dangerous post-apocalypse desert world, searches for a missing woman named Catherine and her illusive captor the Nomad King.
 With enemies at every turn, Sol's only chance of finding Catherine is with the help of a rogue and mysterious wander, Cleo"

 Between the cover and the blurb I had certain expectations of this movie.

  I admit it, I was expecting a blatant clone of Mad Max: Fury Road.  I wasn't expecting it to be great cinema but I was looking forward to seeing some motorised mayhem. 

  As it turns out, there is not a single car in this film. 

Not one.

The closest you get to a wheeled vehicle is this guy:


    So once again, I've been suckered into buying a DVD that isn't what was promised on the cover. 

  I mean, the post-apocalypse bit was right as is the story basically being about Sol & Cleo wandering around a desert trying to find the Nomad King.  However, instead of being a high-octane thrill-fest, I got one of the weirder movies I've seen lately.

 Two minutes research reveals that this film as originally called "Enemy Empire"  

  Five minutes watching time reveals that this is an odd film.

  When Sol first meets Cleo, he's being dragged into a mechanical people-chipper and she's answering a telephone in the middle of nowhere. After reluctantly agreeing to team up, Sol and Cleo wander the desert bickering and  meeting odd people. 
Sometimes Sol kills them. Sometimes he doesn't. 

But mostly killing them. 

  Mad Max: Fury Road isn't really the right reference point for this film. A better one would be Sandahl Bergman 80s vehicle "She" which is another post-nuke film that gets wacky, although "She" didn't have the downright peculiar ending Furious Road gets. 

 I can pinpoint the moment "Furious Road" nosedived into absurdity.

 I'm pretty certain this is also the exact moment people expecting "Mad Max" action ejected the DVD with a loud cry of  "What is this shite?"

 It gets weirder after that. 

 There are plus points: Sol and Cleo are decent characters in search of a better film and there is a peculiar sort of invention on display. 

 I did like this guy, for instance.

But on the whole "Furious Road" is a low-budget project trying to be clever,  repackaged as something else for easy money. 

How much did I pay for this: 50p
Was it worth it: Well, this was an interesting viewing experience, but since I have an intense dislike of distributors playing me for a mug, and since this film was too strange for it's own good  I'm going to give "Furious Road" a thumbs down. 


 Sol and Cleo wonder what they got themselves into. Me too, guys. Me too. 


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