Beautiful in all its disgusting glory

Rating: 8/10 (18 May 2015)

While it is difficult to believe in a world where people start wars over fossil fuel, people are into suicidal extremists by being misled, and wealthy white men controls the wealth - wait...
Mad Max is brilliant. It is beautiful in all its disgusting glory, and it holds on to you for almost its entire runtime. There are some spots left in so that you can catch your breath, but mostly it's all just chasing and being chased. Mostly the latter. Despite its post-apocalyptic setting the movie manages to burst with color in every scene.
The movie did slow down a bit in the last act, or maybe all the action exhausted me, but it never got boring. The only parts of the movie I did not like was when they tried to connect their world to ours. Some parts of it worked, like how they (re)used old technology, their religion and how they spoke. But especially one scene ("shows") was jarring.