Best Post-Apocalypse Movie Ever.

Rating: 10/10 (7 May 2016)

And I thought The Road Warrior would remain the best of the Mad Max movies. Wrong. Enter FURY ROAD!
Just saw Fury Road for the 6th time.....and once again when watching this insanely amazing action film, a full spectrum of adjectives flows freely through my mind. I'd say "overwhelming" is probably the most appropriate of them.
No plot run-downs here, if you want to know that then watch the freaking movie. I will say that it's plot is an extremely simple one, that even 6 and 7 year-olds should have little difficulty in understanding. That being said, this movie is really not for 6 and 7 year-olds. Oh, and to the Legion of Soccer Moms of America, take little Timmy to a screening of Bambi instead - the nation's tired of frivolous lawsuits.
Firstly, the most prominent aspect of this film is, obviously, it's amazing levels of violence (and surprisingly minimal amounts of gore). It's mostly one big ongoing series of the most mind-bending vehicular stunts ever to hit the screen. Director George Miller is a verifiable genius (even after a 30 year hiatus from such films) and his wife, Margaret SixelI, who handled the editing (well over 2,000 cuts, no doubt an extremely involved painstaking process) won an Oscar for her contributions. The level of expertise that's evident in its cinematography, is probably the most impressive of the films technical aspects. This was no easy shoot, filmed almost entirely under a blazing sun in the deserts of Namibia; the sheer amount effort (and stamina) it must have taken to capture all the high-speed, dust-covered, fire-spewing action is well, an effort that's rarely undertaken - AND NEVER ACHIEVED SO BRILLIANTLY! With great technical aplomb, Miller and crew artfully capture the vast desert expanse of a brutal and gritty world and Margaret SixelI's award-winning editing shines with much spit and polish. I saw a preview for this film 10 months in advance of it's May 15th 2015 theatrical release and never had I gotten such buzz from a movie preview - as a whole Fury Road, not only met, but exceeded that grand initial buzz.
Fury Road stars Tom Hardy as Max, Charlize Theron as Furiosa, Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe, and 6 foot 11 Nathan Jones as Rictus. As some others have said, I also didn't find Hardy to be quite as charismatic in the roll of Max as Gibson was, but ultimately everything gels so perfectly it doesn't really seem to matter. Theron may have actually acted out her role better then Hardy did - in any case they were a great duo. No doubt about it, for Charlize Theron this proved to be the role of a lifetime. Now speaking briefly about the hardware, I happen to love all the auto-motive modifications seen throughout this film and in that respect Fury Road is easily the best of the series. Some of these vehicles qualify as characters in and of themselves - see Oscar win for Best Production Design.
As for it's Oscar tally, Fury Road was nominated 10 times and won 6 - and should have won several more. Including Best Picture (which usually goes to lame movies - as it did in 2015) and Best Director. And to all the idiotic trolls and brainless, blabbering jackasses that claim Fury Road is "over-rated", not hardly, and if a movies overall gross is anything of a reflection of a movies quality - then Fury Road is in fact, under-rated, as it pulled in only $375 million - well below what Warners anticipated.
And so not to pontificate too much - I'll wrap up this review with this: Fury Road is a bombastic hyper-kinetic thrill-ride, that's VERY well worth seeing at least twice and is a treat, a triumph and a treasure for (non-pompous) film aficionado's and adrenaline junkies everywhere. Except for China, where it's banned.
Thanks a million to George Miller and Warner Bros.