Exhaustingly Brilliant.

Rating: 9/10 (1 June 2015)

Wow! What a total thrill ride. I came out of the theater quite limp with exhaustion.
The heat of the chase and the tension barely let up and was so wonderfully executed by Peter Weir and his talented team as to beggar belief.
It was immersive and had great mythological traits running through it.
Charlize did a most wonderful job, as did Tom Hardy, of whom I am a big fan.
However, beyond the action and the brilliance of the story telling I quite simply missed Mel Gibson.
He is capable of bringing to a role a deep, guttural element that transforms acting into being and I could have easily imagined this being centered 20 years on from the last Mad Max with a grizzled, bitter Max that only Mel could have imparted.
An opportunity missed, I truly do believe.
However, that does not in any way take away from the massive undertaking and brilliant, adrenaline fueled, film making that Mad Max: Fury Road is.
See it and be amazed.