Mad Max: Fury Road is the first film from
George Miller since 2011’s dancing penguins cartoon Happy Feet Two, and his
first live-action project since 1998’s Babe: Pig in the City. Two words spring
to mind: "pent up".
The movie is set in the near future. There
are no cities or civilizations left. The landscape is dying of thirst;
water—known as Aqua Cola—is severely rationed; and other resources, notably
gasoline, are hoarded and tussled over like scraps of food. Max (Tom Hardy) is
a survivor, like everyone else, and, as we join the stream of action, he is
captured and hauled into servitude at the Citadel. Max is soon joined by a new
acquaintance, Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) and the film is driven by the
chase between Immortan Joe and the escapees.
The film provides a surreal landscape and
full-throttle soundscape, which provide the film’s backdrop of whirlwinds and
dust-storms, marry surprisingly well with the predominantly practical stunt
work. The world of Mad Max has always been welded together from bits of
whatever was lying around, and the films’ brilliance has always been in their
welding – the ingenious ways in which their scrap-metal parts were combined to
create something unthinkable, hilarious or obscene, and often all three. Mad
Max Fury road gets 5/5 stars.
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