Mad Furiosa

Rating: 6/10 (28 September 2015)

Mad Max trips you up because Max is not the centre of the movie - Furiosa is. Once you figure that out the film is much easier to digest. Max just really goes along for the ride but doesn't seem to drive the action in any meaningful way. Technically, the cinematography is very well done and the bendy poles swinging in and out of the frame was inventive. The electric guitar shooting fire was wonderfully bombastic and signals that subtlety will play no part in this film. Immortan Joe was a little too derivative of Batman's Bane, and the romance sub-plot between the harem wife and the fanatical War Boy pushed credulity to its limits. It's a big, loud, sumptuous post-apocalyptic opera of a film, and pretty much delivers on what it promises. Pure escapism designed to sell popcorn, and does it very well.