Listen modern directors: show, don't tell.

Rating: 8/10 (21 May 2015)

If you're tired of films with more exposition than story, then this is your post-apocalyptic Citizen Kane.
Mad Max: Fury Road is the story of Max Rockatansky, a former cop with a hero complex who's slowly being driven mad by visions of his past. He's soon captured by a band of paint-streaked fanatics who take him back to The Citadel. There we encounter Immortan Joe, theocratic dictator who holds his population enslaved via his control of the most precious resources in a post-apocalyptic world: clean water. Joe is treated like a deity by his "war boys," a cadre of genetically damaged soldiers who live short lives and are willing to sacrifice themselves to do his bidding.
During a routine run to gas town, one of Joe's most trusted war generals, Empirator Furiosa, veers off unexpectedly. We soon learn that she's smuggling precious cargo: the so-called wives of the dictator. Joe finds out, chase ensues, and the mad Max somehow finds himself involved.
To parrot every other review for the film yes, the mostly practical effects are spectacular, yes the editing is great, yeah the characters are interesting, and of course the themes are fascinating. But what's most impressive about this film is the innovative way it handles its story. George Miller gives us a narrative that's almost completely devoid of expository dialogue. He asks us to infer things like character motivation and world status through action instead of dialogue. We never get a scene explaining why a character feels a certain way or how Joe's regime came to be, we see characters whose dialogue is meant to make situation sense and not simply serve the plot. This is a refreshing contrast to Christopher Nolan style writing, where half the script is spent explaining the other half. Miller has faith in his audience's intelligence, and doesn't condescend with simplistic elephant analogies or examples ripped from Event Horizon.
The film wears its political leanings on its sleeve, and its feministic elements go far beyond giving its action heroine so much agency. There's a matriarchy depicted as being a possible viable alternative to the patriarchal Joe. The film deals with themes like the perception of women as property, and the attempt to control women's bodies in various ways. It's rare (and therefore interesting) to see a high budget film this explicitly political.
So yeah, watch this film. Don't just watch it for the spectacle, but be amazed as to why simple doesn't necessarily mean simplistic.