Years after the collapse of civilization, the tyrannical Immortan Joe enslaves apocalypse survivors inside the desert fortress the Citadel. When the warrior Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) leads the despot's five wives in a daring escape, she forges an alliance with Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), a loner and former captive. Fortified in the massive, armored truck the War Rig, they try to outrun the ruthless warlord and his henchmen in a deadly high-speed chase through the Wasteland.
Release date: May 15, 2015 (USA)
Director: George Miller
Film series: Mad Max
Mad Max Fury Road Official Trailer
In a cinematic world filled with redundant and unnecessary sequels, Mad Max is one of the rare older series that actually deserves further exploration and expansion. Writer/director George Miller built a stunning, unique and rich world with his original trilogy of films, and because each sequel operates more as a “Tales From The Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland” instead of a subsequent chapter, there exists fantastic potential to keep telling those stories, forever. It was this thinking that got Miller to put together Mad Max: Fury Road, and we should be thankful because it is as crazy, thrilling, gorgeous, and awesome as anyone could really hope, and guaranteed to be one of the best big-screen spectacles of the year.
Bringing us back to the death-covered world of the desert, where people bleed for water and gasoline, the new legend takes folk hero Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) and this time puts him on a collision course with Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a one-armed rebel on the run with an immensely valuable package. For years, she has served under a monstrous tyrannical cult leader called Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), but when she finds opportunity to escape, she takes it – and brings along with her Joe’s imprisoned prized “breeders” (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Zoe Kravitz, Riley Keough, Megan Gale, Abbey Lee). An escaped prisoner of Joe’s, and in need of an exit strategy himself, Max teams with the women on their journey to a “Promise Land” known as The Green Place. With three war parties on their tails, what follows is an epic, wild pursuit across the wasteland that’s as dramatic and exhilarating as it is spectacular and beautiful.
Mad Max: Fury Road is a chase film by the most literal of definitions, launching into the action just mere moments after the studio logo screens, and though it may sound exhausting, the film actually manages to maintain an incredible level of energy straight through to the end credits. This works not just because Miller packs the feature with a wide array of jaw-dropping, explosive-filled action sequences, but because of the gripping, dense atmosphere that the movie creates. The story never goes too long without giving us insight as to what’s happening on the antagonist’s side of things, and they’re constantly presented as a looming force right on our heroes’ heels – pushing them forward. This isn’t to say that Fury Road doesn’t have its more deliberate moments where we get to see characters, dynamics and deeper themes of hope, fear and retribution explored. But the story sucks you into its world in a way that gives the plot great urgency, flow and pressure at all times in the narrative.
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