Oh it's such a lovely day! I'm glad I spent it with Max!!

Rating: 10/10 (28 May 2015)

I am honestly not that generous with my 10/10 ratings, I assure you, and yet this is the third film (out of four) in the "Mad Max" franchise that I awarded with a well-deserved 10/10 rating! Next to the low-budgeted but tense and progressive 1979 original and the phenomenal 1981 "The Road Warrior", "Mad Max: Fury Road" is the third bona fide & unhinged masterpiece in the series. Only "Mad Max beyond Thunderdome" I rated a little bit lower, due to a weaker second half, but even that one was highly enjoyable. All this makes "Mad Max" one of the greatest – perhaps even THE greatest – movie franchises in history. It doesn't matter that this fourth installment only reaches us nearly three decades after the others, and it doesn't even matter that a new lead actor depicts the legendary titular character George Miller's dystopian post- apocalyptic world perspective is still 100% perplexing, adrenalin- rushing and mind-blowing! From start to finish, "Fury Road" is a high-octane (pun intended) Sci-Fi/thriller adventure with nightmarish characters, dazzling stunt work, incredibly insane plot situations and – guaranteed – the most grotesquely imaginative set designs (vehicles, base camps, death traps) ever created. And you know what is the best part of this all? Almost everything in "Mad Max: Fury Road" is real! By that I mean real stunt work with manually manufactured vehicles that are driven by real tough guys – and gals – in authentic desert locations, instead of computer engineered effects or cast members stupidly miming in front green screens. Lone drifter Max Rockatansky roams around in an uncivilized wasteland, regularly haunted by hallucinations featuring the restless spirits of his deceased wife and child, and gets captured by the minions of the tyrannical self-declared demigod Immortan Joe. This creepy dictator is about to be double-crossed by the rough gal Furiosa, who secretly hid Immortan Joe's beautiful "breeding" girls in her massive fuel truck and plans to take them to the green oasis where she was born. Joe sends his War Boys after them, an army of sickly albino freaks that practically orgasm whenever Immortan Joe even looks at them. The most ambitious War Boy is Nux and he chases Furiosa with Max attached to him as a living blood bag! There are many sub plots, twists, turns and bizarre escalations, but they are all worth discovering. The most fantastic thing about "Mad Max: Fury Road" are the downright marvelous vehicle-designs. I swear, the people who thought up and created the cars and trucks for this film are real geniuses for sure! There are trucks with the coachwork of Volkswagen Beetles, Monster trucks with old Mercedes coachwork processed into them, pick-ups with caterpillars, sand buggies covered with metal spikes and many, many more. Perhaps the craziest gimmick of them all is a War Boy with a rock guitar that is attached to a truck, and his only reason of existence is to incite the rest of the troops. The almighty George Miller also penned down some of the most nightmarish yet intriguing supportive characters, like Corpus Colossus (the deformed midget son of Immortan Joe), The People Eater (a creep that constantly rubs his own nibbles) and The Bullet Farmer. "Mad Max: Fury Road" is cinema in its purest form. See it! And don't just wait for the DVD or for the film to appear on Netflix or whatever. This is a film you have to experience at the cinema, on a gigantic screen with the best possible sound effects. Sheer brilliance