Visual and Visceral

Rating: 9/10 (7 June 2015)

A master-work of visual story-telling, Fury Road tells its exciting, satisfying tale with intense, emotional action, very little dialogue and almost no exposition. It's been so many years since I saw the original trilogy that the only things I really remember are Mel Gibson's hair and sand. Because Fury Road was meant to stand alone, there's no need for the audience to know all of the nuances of the Mad Max mythology to appreciate or understand the story here. This is a "long chase" movie, but it's also a legend about a man who has lost it all, been driven mad, and has to find his way back to himself. See the movie for the story, the characters, and for the feeling of immersion into this wasteland of a world.