Review - Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), R, 120 minutes - George Miller returns from a stint directing more family friendly films (Babe: Pig in the City, Happy Feet, Happy Feet Two) to reboot his iconic character first introduced to the world thirty six years ago in 1979's Mad Max (starring Mel Gibson). Taking place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland of a world, the film opens with Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) munching on a two headed lizard and thinking to himself about one thing: survival. Moments later he is run down and abducted by a group of War Boys, minions of the land's ruler Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne - who also played the primary villain Toecutter in the 1979 original). This sequence kicks off what becomes an almost two hour, pedal to the metal car chase that only slows for plot advancing dialog on a couple of occasions. The basics: Immortan Joe controls all of the precious natural resources around The Citadel and limits their distribution to in order to subjugate his...