WHAT A DAY! WHAT A LOVELY DAY!

Rating: 9/10 (19 February 2020)

The title Mad Max is a bit of a misnomer really. It should be called Completely Demented Max, because it really really is, and it's fantastic! A blind mutant guitarist with a flame throwing electric guitar. Hundreds of white-painted berserkers cruising down the road like mime artists on acid. Grandmas with shotguns. All this and more completely ludicrous delights can be found in this crazy slaughterhouse of a movie (NOT a film!). Anyway, the basic plot revolves around Imperator Furiosa, played so damn well by Charlize Theron it should be called Furiosa:Fury Road, stealing some of a warlord's wives (this being the apocalypse, there aren't many fertile women left in society), picking up one of the warlord's deserters, Nux (Nicholas Hoult) and the titular drifter Max (Tom Hardy) along the way. The warlord, Immortan Joe (Hugh Keats-Byrne, eating the scenery) isn't too happy about this and sends a massive fleet of customised vehicles (Monster trucks, quad bikes and War rigs, oh my!) to kill them to death. I love lots of other factors than the Carmaggedon, such as the fact that Furiosa has a disability (she has a prosthetic arm) and no one talks about it,Tom Hardy's gloriously growly performance as Max and the music and sound design, but the huge car chases are the cherry on the top of the spiky, flaming cake. Just don't watch it on a car journey; you might get an urge to crucify one of your family on the front of the car and drive it into a sandstorm.