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Week of December 31, 2015
The Best and Worst Movie of the Year (Respectively).
First up....
Mad Max: Fury Road
The ironic thing about teenage girls
embracing the idea of a post-apocalyptic world is that, in one, they would all
be sex-slaves.
An outcome the anti-heroes in this action
movie would like to preclude.
When Furiosa (Charlize Theron) flees from
his fortress with five of his breeding wives, Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne)
and his foot soldiers follow them into the nuclear wasteland to reclaim his
unborn offspring.
Partaking in the pursuit is a dutiful
lackey (Nicholas Hoult) driving a death-mobile outfitted with a prisoner Max
(Tom Hardy), who later goes on to help Furiosa and her cargo reach the fabled
Green Place.
A non-stop car-chase with explicit violence
and nightmarish monster trucks, set against an arid color-saturated landscape,
this fourth installment in the Mad Max franchise is an accessible,
over-the-top, visceral experience with unexpected environmental and feminist
undertones.
Incidentally, driving recklessly at high
speeds is only acceptable on long-weekends.
Mortdecai
The upside to white-collar crime is the
offenders smell way better than normal criminals.
However, the art aficionado in this comedy
is working on the right side of the law.
An indebted art dealer, Mortdecai (Johnny
Depp), accepts an offer from Inspector Martland (Ewan McGregor) to help recover
a stolen painting in exchange for 10% of its sale price.
Aided by his wife (Gwyneth Paltrow) and
manservant (Paul Bettany), Mortdecai uses his connections in the art world to
uncover a plot by Russian gangsters to use a hidden code on the artwork to
locate Nazis treasure.
The only problem is the painting is still
in the hands of the real culprits.
With flat jokes focused solely on the
character’s foolish facial hair and embarrassing performances all-round, Mortdecai’s
cheeky and quirky nature is misguided and irritating.
Besides, if you want to steal art just pry
it off the motel room wall.
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