George Miller's game changing action blockbuster

Rating: 8/10 (15 June 2015)

This film was great birthday viewing in 2D on the huge Hoyts Xtreme Screen @ Melbourne Central, then 2 weeks later in 3D on the huge 25m I-Max screen. with friends & family, the 3D sound & crisp visuals made for an exhilarating ride! we saw the 2D version as some of our crew weren't keen on Imax in 3D
I'm just really glad it's not Fast & the Furious in the outback as i first anticipated the film is jam packed with action sequences and real stunts with no CG, a game changer hopefully where the big studios will follow suit & go back to the old days of making something spectacular with real sets, real stunts, real explosions also it wasn't overly laden with crappy dialog or cool sequences, it plays out like a real apocalyptic "survival of the fittest" film
Another bonus was the focus on Charlize Theron as the female hero, while Tom Hardy's Mad Max plays back seat to her really there is a strong focus on females from the start right to the end which i don't mind at all but the film is called Mad Max so it's still a bit of a mystery to me why the focus was taken on Max the location they shot in Africa for the dessert scenes are amazing the costumes & the characters are all fascinating with so much detail, cinematography by John Seale and score from Junkie XL are a perfect fit which paints a very distinct and bleak dystopia world that has as much intrigue as what George Lucas has in Star Wars i wanted to know more about these different characters, their background, how this class order came to exist
At first glance I could understand the feminist remarks & how max plays a back seat But after thinking about it further, I realize that it's not as clean cut as that Tom Hardy especially in this film is like "the man with no name" from Sergio Leone's westerns & Akira Kurosawa's samurai films Sanjuro & Yojimbo  This character doesn't always play the front seat or the hero all the time He's more strategic than that, choosing to play it like a game of chess, letting others take the limelight & the action but he always played a key role in the decision making of where the story was gonna go & then played his part of making it happen i see Charlize Theron more as like Joan of Arc, the female heroine among a male dominated society who is very courageous, skilled & will go beyond to get to her goal
I read that if this film made money, George would do 2 more considering it made $44M of the $150M budget in the opening weekend in the US alone, it's safe to say this will come to fruition which is a great thing & hope it goes on to be one of the most successful blockbusters in recent years, so it shakes up the Hollywood system on how things should be done - with realism, no cheese, with intensity & an actual story
This is a big screen experience that has to be witnessed don't download it, don't wait for it to come out on DVD / blu-ray, definitely don't watch it on your phone go see it & support something actually worth seeing at the cinemas, you wont regret it!!
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