Entertaining but didn't really take any chances and didn't set itself apart from other movies like this. A very OK movie.

Rating: 7/10 (31 August 2015)

"If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die historic on the fury road." Max (Hardy) is a loner and a drifter who has been captured and is being used as a "blood bag". Imperator Furiosa (Theron) is charged with leading a group to a distant city. When she takes a detour the ruler of the village isn't happy and sets out to find her and bring her back. Max and Furiosa form an unlikely alliance in order to save a group of prisoners from the tyrannical leader. I wasn't really looking all that forward to this movie. I wasn't a huge fan of the Mel Gibson series and wasn't expecting anything great from this movie. It may have been my low expectations but this movie wasn't that bad and it was pretty entertaining throughout. The best part of this movie is that it didn't try and do too much. It knew what the audience wanted and it is basically a 2 hour car chase movie. There is nothing amazing or horrible in this movie. On one hand it was better than I expected, but on the other hand it really didn't do anything to wow me or add anything extra special to set it apart from the originals, or Death Race for that matter. Nothing else really to say other than this is pretty much what you are expecting it to be. A very safe feeling middle of the road action movie. Overall, entertaining but didn't really take any chances and didn't set itself apart from other movies like this. It is very watchable though. I give it a B.