Perfectly flawed.

Rating: 8/10 (5 June 2019)

It's very hard to review a picture that has already been regarded as a classic (and "Best action movie of all time!") but here goes. 'Mad Max 2' was a damn hard film to recreate and the look and feel of 'Fury Road' comes very close; with jaw-dropping stunt work and some stunning battle sequences. Just like 'The Road Warrior' (the perfect movie), it's mad folk being run-over at 120 mph, which is a standard, brilliant feature of any George Miller movie. Where it fails is that the whole film is one long chase sequence and you wonder why they are bothering to risk life and limb in doing so. For halfway through the movie the character Max has little involvement and even spends most of the second half strapped to the front of a car. The narration is told throughout the endless chase but it's unsatisfactory. As the time expects, the main character is a female, so it's more of a case of 'Mad Maxine'. You think it would have been simple to have just cut half the chasing away, developed the new Tom Hardy version of Max, to a younger audience, so they know what he's about (his history) and just crank up the violence! You really miss the colourful characters developed in 'Mad Max 2', and most of all the hilarious helicopter pilot. You had such empathy for their fate and rooted for Mel Gibson all the way. 'Fury Road', just might be the most spectacular of them all but it's perfectly flawed.