The best action film of the decade.

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2019)

It was clear to me that George Miller's intention with this soft reboot of Mad Max, was to make a 2-hour long action sequence that tells a story. And this movie accomplishes that ambitious task flawlessly. In this post-apocalyptic wasteland, our anti-hero Max Rockatansky, is captured by the ruthless war boys, who are under the command of the wasteland's dictator, Immortan Joe, who has power over the remaining lives on this deserted planet by controlling the only source of running water guarded by his lovely sons and his war boy army who are on the never ending quest for gasoline, weapons, and utter chaos with the hopes of arriving at the silver and chrome gates of Valhalla. In order to save what remains of the planet from total destruction and slavery, Imperial Furiosa, the badass one armed truck driver and expert sniper will need to team up with Max and the renegade war boy Nux in order to rescue the enslaved wives of Immortan Joe, and find the "Green Place" in order to save them selves and find hope in the never ending suffering of the wasteland. What separates an action film like Fury Road from movies directed by Michael Bay or any other boring mindless action film, is that the action in Fury Road means something. The constant fighting and amazingly choreographed chases our characters go through, they go through it because they'll find redemption not only in themselves but also in the post-apocalyptic nightmare in which they come from. The action has significant meaning to the overall theme of this movie which is hope. And on a technical level, this movie is breathtaking. The chases are real, the explosions are real, the vehicles ARE REAL, and because of that, George Miller has a made a film that will forever be timeless. This movie is amazing, I was literally sweating after seeing it in the theaters. It's about as visceral and compelling as an action film gets. 10/10.