Lauded as Great Action and Female-Empowering for a Reason

Rating: 10/10 (21 May 2017)

I love this movie. Before I knew it, it had crept to the top of my favorite movies. I've seen it about eight times because I keep recommending it to people and then sitting down and watching it with them, but I'm still not tired of it. In this movie, Max takes a bit of a backseat to an indomitable amputee and her companions, women from the harem of the local creepy old warlord. Furiosa is not the only powerful one either—none of these women are helpless or one-dimensional. Tom Hardy delivers a stoic yet truly impressive Max with something like 43 lines. The world is what I love most, though. George Miller creates several utterly unique, colorful, fully-formed cultures, and he doesn't waste the viewer's time with backstory—he assumes we're intelligent enough to figure out relevant details and the rest is up to our fully piqued imaginations. Though the action is non-stop, it never gets boring and drives the plot rather than distracting from it. Plus, bonus points for a lot of practical effects instead of relying mostly on CGI!
In summary: powerful disabled female character, fantastic world, engaging action, my favorite.