Fury Road is, to paraphrase Mad Max’s Nightrider, “a fuel-injected suicide machine, a rocker, a roller, an out-of-controller,” and a genuine, mindblowing masterpiece of pure action cinema from George Miller, director of the 1979 original. This new Max (Hardy) is truly mad, haunted by PTSD and visions of long-gone allies. Before long, he is captured by Immortan Joe (Keays-Byrne), the humongous leader of an army of white-painted War Boys who, ridden with pseudo-religious fervor, use normal humans as living blood-bags. It's Charlize Theron's one-armed, über-feminist/humanist warrior woman Furiosa, however, that gifts Fury Road its heart and soul – well, after all those nightmarishly souped-up deathmobiles. Mad Max: Fury Road is epic, awe-inducing, extreme eye candy of the highest order. Unstoppable and righteous, it roars across the no-lane hardpan like the horseman of the kinetic apocalypse, amped up on bathtub crank and undiluted cinematic love. Oh, what a movie. What a lovely movie!
D: George Miller; with Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult.
Opened 05/15/15
