Charlize Theron shines like Mad.

Rating: 10/10 (12 May 2015)

Mad Max (Tom Hardy) and Furiosa (Charlize Theron) manage to come together after a massive chase sequence cumulating in them fighting for control. Eventually they start to see they have the same goal, achieve some sort of redemption for their past failures.
What Mad Max lacks in story it makes up for with pulsating action sequence in a constant chase. Fury Road is everything Waterworld wishes it was, except where there was water there is now only sand. A dry desolate world where people act like obedient zombies. The attachment to religion and blind followers is undeniable, taking swings at notions of a women's place is to breed, that an act of sacrifice will be reworded in the afterlife and that the preacher is the same as a god.
The action in the chase sequences is everything Fast and the Furious wishes it was, capturing the stark beauty that the Namib desert has to offer in the background. Golden landscapes and wispy sands. Empty. Hot. But at night it's cold, and saturated in the blue dark. "Fury Road"really captured the ghostly Southern African desert superbly. And the extreme temperatures from day to night without any character making reference to it.
The traveling band is just awesome and needs a mention.
The oddest aspect would be Hugh Keays-Byrne's inability to act through the costume that resembled something similar to a mask Tom Hardy donned in Batman and blew the character out the water. swing and a miss for Hugh.
Nicholas Hoult brings a very unexpectedly tender performance to one of the henchmen, Nux.
The costumes are out of this world, not merely the choice in some of the amazing apocalyptic desert couture but the amount of it. The scope is epic and the cinematography captures the amount of depth in these massive shots flawlessly.
In spite of the lack of character development the action is so poised and beautiful to watch without becoming slow and empty. The film is just sick. cool. fleek. Whatever. Prodigious cinema is just sensational.