Great action and intensity throughout! 8/10

Rating: 8/10 (12 October 2015)

Review: What an epic ride! I'm not one for remakes but this was a great movie. It's full of action, right from the beginning to the end and the stunts were amazing. Personally, I think the movie should have been called Mad Furiosa because Max hardly said a word through the whole film. Anyway, in this movie you see Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) being captured by a group of rebels who keep him in a dungeon as there prisoner. When Furiosa (Charlize Theron) is told to pick up some gasoline for the rebels, she takes his five pregnant wives with her because they want to escape from the ruthless warlord, Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne). Whilst travelling across the dangerous wasteland, Joe soon realises that his wives have escaped, so he gathers his various gang's together, so he can get them back. Max also travels with the rebels and he manages to escape from them and ends up helping Furiosa on her impossible mission. The storyline was great and the intensity throughout the movie, kept me on the edge of my seat. Charlize Theron's performance was outstanding and the whole look of the movie was brilliant. It does end quite abruptly so I hope they come out with a sequel soon. I'm waiting to see Mad Max kick butt because there wasn't that much depth to his character. That's not to say that Tom Hardy didn't play his part well but there was just way to much going on for the director to go into his story. Hopefully he will do in the sequel! Anyway, it's definitely one of the best films that I have watched this year and for a remake, it makes the original look mediocre. Brilliant!
Round-Up: Charlize Theron, 40, first came on the scene in the Children of the Corn III, if anyone actually saw it but most people remember her in Two Days in the Valley in 1996. After starring alongside Tom Hanks in That Thing You Do, she played a major role as Keanu Reeves wife in the Devil's Advocate in 1997 which pushed her to the big league. Her next major role was alongside Johnny Depp in the Astronaut's Wife in 1999 and after the successful Legend of Bagger Vance, she starred with Keanu Reeves again in Sweet November. After that she had a string of average movies like 15 minutes, Trapped and Waking Up In Reno and then she starred in a leading role in the Italian Job remake. In 2004 she won an Oscar & Golden Globe award for the best leading role in Monster and she was nominated for the same award for North Country in 2005. After the disappointing Aeon Flux movie in 2005, she didn't really come back into the limelight until she starred alongside Will Smith in Hancock, which I quite enjoyed. She then got high praise for her role in Young Adult in 2011 and she also starred in the long awaited Prometheus. After that she proved that she can tackle most genres by starring in Snow White and the Huntsman and a Million Ways to Die in the West and then she comes out with this movie were she put in a terrific performance. I just hope she returns for the sequel! This movie was directed my George Miller who also made the original Mad Max movies. He also directed the Twilight movie, the Witches of Eastwick, Lorenzo's Oil, Babe and Happy Feet 1 & 2 so he definitely has experience in different genres. Its planned that he will be directing the sequel Mad Max: Wasteland so I hope that he doesn't spoil the franchise, now that this movie made such a healthy profit. Anyway, the cast was perfect and the concept was fresh and definitely worth a watch.
Budget: $150million Worldwide Gross: $375million
I recommend this movie to people who are into their action/adventure/sci-fi movies about a man who helps a radical woman to bring 5 pregnant women to safety. 8/10