Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Director: George Miller.
Synopsis
Set in a future desert wasteland where gasoline and water are scarce commodities, Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) joins forces with Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) to flee from cult leader Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and his army in an armored tanker truck. This leads to a lengthy road battle.
Review
Mad Max maestro George Miller returns to his familiar, arid stomping ground in this long-awaited upgrade of the original Mel Gibson-star vehicles.
Gibson has been replaced with Tom Hardy, who manages to give old Mel a run for his money in the monosyllabic, gruff-voiced grunting department. Better still in terms of nihilism and machismo is the wonderful Theron, a woman who could give a whole army a run for their testosterone.
Miller's fevered, schizoid filming style, with his camera literally flung into the action and with jumpy, itchy acting and editing, helped set a style in Australian cinema but never quite found it's feet in Hollywood (he was paid handsomely to leave the Jodie Foster starring Contact after creative differences with the studio failed to be resolved) but here he is in his skull-smashing, rocking element.
It's a breathless, fantastical, thrilling return to career best form.
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Cast & credits
Producers: George Miller, Doug Mitchell, P.J. Voeten. Writers: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris. Camera: John Seale. Music: Junkie XL. Sets: Colin Gibson.
Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Bearn, Josh Helman, Nathan Jones, Zoe Kravitz, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
