Director George Miller
Starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron & Nicholas Hoult
Rated MA
Score 5.5/6
In a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, two rebels just might be able to restore order: Max, a man of action and of few words, and Furiosa, a woman of action who is looking to make it back to her childhood homeland.
Okay, for those of you out there who might wondering I finally made it to a session of Mad Max Fury Road, though admittedly in hindsight waiting that extra fifty minutes instead of going to see Pitch Perfect 2 might have been a good idea. Those of you who might be wondering no I did not take the time to revisit any of the movies Miller’s first Mad Max trilogy and for the record of Miller’s original trilogy I’m kind of partial to the second movie. Though it might be a good idea to watch Miller’s ’79 Mad Max if you want to have a better idea of Max Rockatansky’s origins.
Now except for what really are the most minor of minor complaints on the whole Fury Road was a great movie, it’s all about the action and the cars if you get down to it, the kind of movie where you can disconnect your brain while you eat your choc top and popcorn while you enjoy the ride . The first of my complaints being that filming was moved from was moved from Broken Hill New South Wales to Namibia, which is perfectly understandable move because unexpected heavy rains turned the desert there into a lush landscape of wildflowers, inappropriate for the look of the movie, the other being that Max barely drove his V8 Interceptor in the movie.
Fury Road is another one of those movies where you can play the ever fun cinematic sport of spot the Australian Actor because a lot of the familiar Australian faces that you would generally expect to see popped up in Fury Road. I also thought it was really cool that Quentin Kenihan got a role.
Charlize Theron was brilliant in her role. Personally I think in a lot of action movies when there is a female protagonist runs the risk more often than not of being very badly written, this was not the case with the role of Imperator Furiosa.
I’ll admit it part of me would have liked to have seen an Aussie actor in the role of Max Rockatansky instead of Tom Hardy. Though Hardy gave decent enough performance and he has a great onscreen presence, and I really see myself warming up to Hardy’s tenure as Max Rockatansky should any of the sequels that Miller has in mind actually come to pass.
