Mad Furiosa to the Max

Rating: 10/10 (8 July 2015)

Let's back off a little and look at who did this movie: The original Mad Max director! The guy who made all 3 previous movies then. He didn't really have much money when he made the first one (which is considered a classic and has some nice stunts, but has aged badly, feeling blown up at times, filling time to get to the 90 minutes mark), but it was successful enough to make more. The second movie was considered to be the best. Up to this point that is ... we have a new king (with a mad Queen by his side).
So a 70-year old man brings you this movie that could and should be played in film schools. But don't get it twisted, this is entertainment as it should be. Unless you have a case of "macho gone wrong", there is nothing you can fault in this. The beginning alone almost had me jump up and down with excitement. That's 5 minutes into the movie ... and more (insanity) was still to come.
If you can fault the movie for one thing, it's that you don't get as much Mad Max (the character) as you got before. But it actually makes Tom Hardys character even more mysterious. We don't really know what he's about (it does seem to lean a bit on the previous installments, character development-wise, if you want it to be - but that's up to the viewer to decide). You don't have to have seen the previous movies to get this. And even if some things seem inevitable (and some might say cliché), the movie itself is just superb and pure entertainment. Stunts, ideas, editing, score and more all blend into a very fine movie indeed