Relentless Road

Rating: 8/10 (29 June 2015)

It took me nearly a month and a half to finally see this movie, and that's mainly because I am not into post-apocalyptic movies. They literally depress me as there's very little to look forward to in any of their finales. But, I gave this a shot, and every single thing my friends had posted about this, couldn't have been any truer. This movie was unyielding, merciless and, yeah, furious with its action and almost exclusively non-CGI visuals and stunts. While I mentioned I'm not a post-apocalyptic movie guy, I'm less a CGI guy. So, this was refreshing.
The story was void and what was on screen wouldn't confuse a 3-year- old, but the whole point of this movie is to see strong leads and an absolute roller coaster of a car chase downyou guessed it, a Road of Fury.
Theron was excellent, as always, and Hardy, though good, was mostly just present. The real star of the movie was the superb and extremely long, albeit welcomed, detailed action scenes. So many for so long, that you probably have 10-15 minutes in the two hours to catch your breath.
Wasn't a fan of the connection to part three. The never-ending battle in Max's head to give him some depth. I give them kudos for attempting to add development and understanding, but it came off like a deep background story for a Friday the 13th teen that's just gonna distract what we bought our ticket for.
Strictly for action and I mean REAL ACTION – phooey on CGI, and nothing else, totally recommended. Actually, this is hard to NOT recommend since the action is so intense, so mind-blowingly awesome.wait, I'm just circling here. And if you saw this movie, like you should, you'd see what I just did there.