Saw it 4 times already, and I still want to see it again.

Rating: 9/10 (27 May 2015)

My summary says it all. I don't usually rewatch movies, unless I lost the plot or missed something important. I only rewatch movies that I really like when enough time has passed for me to start forgetting parts of it. However, with this movie, I'm simply dragged to watch it again and again.
It totally took me by surprise. I was rather expecting another awful reboot with the sole purpose of cashing in the name "Mad Max"; so I began to watch it without much interest. All that change two hours later, when I returned to reality at the end of the movie and found myself completely flabbergast.
I think that more than the action scenes -which are so good and so often that keeps you immerse in the movie for its full length- what I most liked and what really hooked me was the world that Miller created; the society surrounding Immortan Joe, and how Miller masterfully reveals it all visually, without using the typical exposition scenes. I found that aspect of the movie so interesting that I simply wanted to know everything about it; and that without even taking into account how cool everything looks, from the landscape and the citadel to the vehicles and the characters. You can clearly see that a lot for effort and thought has been put into this movie.
Another thing that surprised me was Charlize Theron's characterization of Imperator Furiosa. I didn't look at the credits before watching it -just knew that Tom Hardy was substituting Mel Gibson- so I didn't know that she was in it until well into the movie. My image of Charlize Theron is the perfect Miss Vickers from Prometheus, in which it even makes you doubt whether she is human or an android, so to find her as someone as Imperator Furiosa, the complete opposite of Vickers, was something quite difficult to believe; it kind of seemed impossible to reconcile the fact that Furiosa and Vickers are played by the same actress. I don't think many actresses as good looking as her could have achieved such a convincing transformation. Tom Hardy was also quite good as Mad Max; I didn't miss Mel Gibson at all; which is something that rarely happens with this type of franchises.
The only reason why I didn't give this movie a 10 is the plot and the end. The plot was rather simple -which seems to have been done in purpose, as Miller was after the road chase from Mad Max 2 but as long as a full movie. Given that premise, I think it couldn't have been done any better; so it's difficult to predict how it would have turned out if the plot was more complex. And regarding the end, which I'm not going to explain: well, it simply didn't convince me.
Resuming: it is possible that if you don't like good action movies then you won't like this one. But if you do, this one is definitely for you. I would go as far as saying that in my opinion it is one of the best action movies of all times.