An Uncompromising Action Movie

Rating: 9/10 (28 August 2017)

Mad Max is probably the greatest action movie I have seen until now. Its over the top action sequences, beautiful camera work, the setting, the cars and the fire breathing guitar truly create a post apocalyptic world of humans reduced to savages.
George Miller gives you no time to adjust or comprehend the world he has created. The frames are hyperactive and the scenes are accelerated, the dialogue is barely audible and you're left on edge 10 minutes into the movie, and it doesn't slow down from there. The lighting and colors give this movie a different, more exotic feel than other post apocalyptic or action movies. Some of the action sequences were over the top, but others were very intelligently made. The performances by Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron gave the film even more drive. The movie never side-tracks or brings anything that isn't essential to the full on action film that it is.
I don't believe this film (alone, not including the prequels) was meant to introduce 3D characters with depth or have a philosophy behind it. But it does demonstrate, through its madness and chaos, that humans' most basic instinct, survival, creates this chaos and in that chaos eventually comes some form of civilization. I also couldn't help but relate the people in Mad Max's world to the ones in ours. I found many similarities, the core instincts of greed, power, need, survival, faith, loyalty, they're all there, they've always been there. The only difference is in the manifestation, the more the world progresses the more complicated is the manifestation of these instincts and emotions. But again this movie was probably not meant to demonstrate these things, but that just adds to my point.