Mad Max Sure Is Mad!

Rating: 10/10 (25 May 2016)

"Mad Max: Fury Road" is the fourth Max Mad movie directed by George Miller. Different from the other Mad Max movies, this one follows its own storyline and does not have any associations with the previous movies in the franchise. I will be honest, when I chose to watch this movie, I had no idea it would be SO DAMN INSANE! I mean, I had watched the trailers and seen what I was about: an apocalyptic wasteland, where law and order no longer existed and the only thing left to do is to fight for your own survival. I was just not prepared for the insanity almost every character seemed to show. I mean, even our own protagonist Max does not think clear, which just comes to show the world really had gone mad. If you have seen any clips on YouTube from behind the scenes of the movie, you will know how little CGI that were used to film the crazy car-chase scenes. To see how much effort George Miller went through to make each scene look almost exactly like the ones shown in the movie is a big plus in my book. For the characters: Tom Hardy did a solid job as Mad Max, but he could not have done it without the assistance of Charlize Theron as Furiosa, who did a fantastic job in portraying a strong female character. The movie could have been called "Mad Furiosa" and I would have been fine with it. In addition, Nicholas Hoult's character also did a great job, and the same can be said for the movies main antagonist "Immortan Joe". Even though he had a mask on that would hide his facial expressions, it was easy to see in his eyes that he wasn't playing around. It was like watching Tom Hardy as Bane from the Dark Knight Rises – you could feel the horror from the look in his eyes. The movie is not filled with much dialogue, but the scenes in the movie that involves the most dialogue is great to watch, and shows good character development. But the movie shines the most is at its crazy, over-the-top action scenes, that are gold to watch. I just wish I had seen the movie in cinema, because this really is a movie that deserves to be enjoyed on the big screen.