One of the best action movies of the decade

Rating: 9/10 (15 October 2015)

Mad Max: Fury Road is the fourth installment of the Mad Max franchise and the first film in the series in 30 years. To call it the best action movie of the year would be an understatement. This is easily one of the best action movies of the decade. It successfully breathes new life into this classic action film series, and brings it to a whole new generation.
In the year 2060, Australia and the rest of the world is in ruins after a huge apocalyptic event occurs. As a result, humanity is broken and food, water and fuel is scarce, so much so that violence and murder is common from those seeking out ways to survive. Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy, replacing Mel Gibson) is still adrift in the desert many years after the events of the third film when he meets Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a tough, no- nonsense woman of action who is searching for her homeland. Furiosa has captive with her the five wives of King Immortan Joe, a vicious military leader who rules over the desert kingdom known as the Wasteland. Reluctantly, Max and Furiosa, along with one of Joe's former soldiers Nux (Nicholas Hoult) ally together to fight back against Joe to free his wives from his clutches and try to restore order to the Wasteland and its people.
This is easily one of the most bad-ass movies I have ever seen. The car chases are extremely well filmed and choreographed, much better than any of the ones in its predecessors. I also liked how it kept its gritty atmosphere, which I felt was very lacking in the third film. Tom Hardy is a decent replacement for Mel Gibson playing Max, as I feel that Mel would be too old for some of the stunts required in this film, although his accent did keep drifting between Australian and British throughout the movie. But the real surprise was Charlize Theron as Furiosa. She channels some of the more bad-ass female film characters like Ellen Ripley from the Alien franchise into her performance. There's never a dull moment.
I rate it a solid 9/10.