Film: Mad Max: Fury Road

GENRE: Action/Adventure

RATING: R for violence
RUNTIME: 2 hours and 0 minutes

STARRING: Tom Hardy (Inception; The Dark Knight Rises)

Charlize Theron (Monster), Nicholas Hoult (Xmen: First Class)

DIRECTOR: George Miller (Mad Max; Road Warior; Happy Feet)

WRITERS: George Miller (Beyond Thunderdome; Babe)

Brendan McCarthy & Nick Lathouris (newcomers)

PLOT: A high-speed car chase through the desert. Yup, that’s about it.    

FIVE OBSERVATIONS:

1 The best way to describe this film is ‘relentless’. There are a couple quiet moments but everything else is an extended chase scene. Not much plot. So if you’re in the mood for that, this is for you. I don’t think it quite deserves the 98% on Rotten Tomatoes though.

2 I was impressed with the many ways the vehicles attacked each other. It was beautifully shot.   

3 At times, Miller changes the frames per seconds which takes away from the action. One of the opening scenes looked more like Keystone Cops than anything intimidating.    

4 I wish Hardy would have used his Inception voice for his ten lines of dialogue instead of his low Bane voice from Batman. It kind of took me out of the film.

5 Who needs a radio when you have a guitarist and drum section following you around?

RECOMMENDATION: See in theatres for the action
UPCOMING REVIEWS: Entourage