"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
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