After a long pause Mad Max is back in a film that has a lot of kinetic energy and lots of cars and people getting smashed and flattened. The director George Miller uses his old visual references and tricks from his previous films and if the viewer has seen these shots before in Miller's other car chase films, he sure knows how to use them.
Tom Hardy takes over for Mel Gibson whose presence is frankly kind of missed. Charlize Theron wa very stunning woman is actually the star of the film and it's not a glamour babe part for her. Miller has even perversely used computer trickery to remove one of her arms and put a prostethic gripper in it's place. Next to Theron, Hardy is more of a reactor than driver in this film as she basically beats the crap out of him and any other man that gets in her way.
Fury Road has a lot of scenes and situations from the other films. The chief villain, Immortan Joe is definitely a call back to The Humungous from The Road Warrior. Immortan Joe's fortress, The Citadel is clearly Bartertown from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. The car chases in this film are extremely well done, but they do remind me an awful lot of the final chase in The Road Warrior. In fact the weirdo's in this film could be related to the other weirdo's that populated the first three films.
Probably the most interesting thing about this film is the strong feminist slant the runs throughout the film. This is one of the few ''balls to the wall" action films where the women call all the shots fighting a testosterone dripping bunch of violent crazies.
120 minutes
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