This rewatch hit different: I shared it with my 16-year-old.

Experiencing Fury Road through his eyes, someone raised on the style and rhythms of the MCU, reminded me just how visceral and precise great filmmaking can be. The momentum, the clarity, the texture of it all. A week later, he's still talking about it.

Sometimes a movie doesn't just hold up. It reveals something new when shared.

Yep. It’s as bad as I .

This one is a mess. A goofy, morbid, overstuffed mess.

It feels like there's a solid, heart-felt story somewhere in there, but there's no coherency or continuity for all of the characters or plot points to anchor themselves to. The movie is both big and small, nuanced and broad, all at the same time. If you told me this film started and stopped production a handful of times, I'd believe it.

I liked many of the individual components, but we're ultimately left with an unsatisfying whole.

Derivative of the first film, but in a bad way. Underwritten. Poorly edited, Laughably bad in a few very awkward moments. Wasted opportunity with a pretty great cast? Yes. Worth your time to see in a theater? No.