The kitchen sink, the working surface and the whole damn dining room!

Rating: 9/10 (25 May 2015)

Wow, you really thought that Mad Max 2 was the ultimate chase film but it really has nothing on this! It got to the point that it was utter sensory overload but never boringly so (because you cared about the characters, the ultimate secret to any action film)
Okay, first off I see this as a reboot occurring just after the original Mad Max. We see Max with his iconic 'last of the V8 interceptors' police car at the beginning and as that was destroyed in Mad Max 2 we must assume that Hardy's Max and Gibson's Max one day came to a fork in the road and one went one way and the second went another. Therefore Gibson's Max is happily living out his life with the feral kids after returning to them at the end of Beyond Thunderdome, staying right there, living a long time and being grateful. Hardy's Max by contrast is still looking for redemption before finding his new family and purpose (at the end he walks away from the celebration in true cowboy style, just as Gibson's Max chooses not to go with the settlers to form their new colony 'The Great Northern Tribe' at the end of Mad Max 2, he isn't done yet). We see the beginnings of Max's moral comeback here, choosing to risk his own life when he could have walked away, finding in Furiosa and her sisterhood something worth fighting for and living for. When he finally reveals his name to Furiosa it shows that he is beginning to remember who he once was and who he might be again, no longer just a nameless drifter.
All credit to some extremely brave stuntmen who made this film, really beggars belief that no one was killed in the filming. Amazing special effects too, the idea that Furiosa's missing arm was created using purely CGI is staggering.
A feminist film? I guess so, we have both the 'brides' and the 'milk cows' rebelling, we have the motherhood taking over at the end. In the previous Mad Max films we'd had rape, a formidable female warrior who was then killed off and Aunty Entity, in many ways an admirable figure but also the quasi villain. Staggering that this got a 15 rating, the caesarean scene made me cringe like nothing else.
All told pretty damn brilliant and definitely up for another sequel.