Adrenaline Rush

Rating: 8/10 (15 May 2015)

I saw "Mad Max:Fury Road", starring Tom Hardy-Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, Sucker Punch; Charlize Theron-Prometheus, Reindeer Games; Nicholas Hoult-Beast in the X-Men movies including the next one, Warm Bodies and Hugh Keays-Byrne-Farscape_tv, Mad Max_1979.
This is an action packed reboot of the Mad Max movies from 1979-1985, that starred Mel Gibson, and no, he does not make an appearance in this new one. It is directed by the same man that directed the original 3 movies from 30 years ago, George Miller. In this reboot, Tom plays Max, an ex-cop living in the dark, apocalyptic world of the not too distant future, where there is a shortage of resources, mostly gas and water. Hugh is the man in charge of a place called the citadel, where he dishes out supplies very sparingly and he also keeps a small harem of Victoria's Secret super models as breeding materials. A couple of them were real VS models. Most of Hugh's underlings look like bald-headed, white paint covered cannibals, and the movie starts with a group of them capturing Tom. Charlize drives one of the gas tanker trucks for Hugh but decides to steal Hugh's breeding girls and head for a safe haven in the dessert, where she grew up. Nicholas plays one of the white paint covered underlings sent to retrieve Hugh's stolen property and he takes Tom along as his personal living blood bank-he has Tom strapped to the hood of his car with an iv needle leading back to himself. Pretty soon, Tom and Charlize team-up while trying to avoid all the supped up cars, trucks, motorcycles and other assorted vehicles that are in hot pursuit. One thing that I really enjoyed was that the stunts are about 80% real stunts-not CGI-although there is some CGI used; Charlize is missing an arm and I don't think that they really cut it off for this movie. Oh yeah, I also liked how the bad guys had their own traveling music along with them. There were literally people playing drums and guitars on one of the vehicles, as they were barreling through the dessert fighting. The stunts are fantastic and I don't see how some of the stunt people survived some of the crashes that occurred. This movie is so action packed that it is an adrenaline rush! It's rated "R" for violence, disturbing images and sexual content-including nudity-and has a running time of 2 hours. I really enjoyed it and would buy it on Blu-Ray.