Chance's Corner - Mad Max: Fury Road Movie Review

Ideas seem to be running short in Hollywood these days. Movies are being remade, redone, or completely reimagined. Mad Max: Fury Road falls in the midst of this "re-" craze, but it is strong enough to stand on its own.
 
As usual, the world of Mad Max is in post-apocalyptic chaos. Oil reserves have dried up in Australia, and people have branched off into eclectic tribes/gangs. Max, once a cop struggling to maintain order, is now a drifter, reluctantly helping others that may or may not be able to help him in return.
 
Tom Hardy's Max, however, is merely a secondary character in Fury Road. He grumbles maybe 20 or so legible words in all and mainly serves as a walking blood bag. The real star of the show is clearly Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa. She's a strong, independent woman who can drive, shoot and kill at will, all in order to protect a band of female prisoners from the evil, perverted clutches of a tyrannical ruler called Immortan Joe and his sickly War Boys.
 
Fury Road is purely a chase film from beginning to end, or as director George Miller calls it "a western on wheels". It wouldn't be a Mad Max movie without an assortment of awesome, bizarre cars crashing and exploding. The violence also returns to its original, brutal roots. Absolutely no one is safe from death.

Overall, this movie is a very-rare example of a redo worth watching. Honestly, if Max wasn't even involved, it'd be a proper standalone film in its own right.

Mad Max: Fury Road is now available the Franklin County Library and is rated R for intense sequences of violence throughout, and for disturbing images.