The Mad and the Furious

Rating: 10/10 (18 May 2015)

This is one of my personal favorite films. I'm actually a fan of the Mad Max films, I really liked the first one, second one "The Road Warrior" was even better and is also a personal favorite film of mine. It was a long wait for this film like reaching the destination of any long road trip it was well worth the trip.
I really like the look of the post apocalyptic world which I feel just like with "The Road Warrior" is in a wider scope, it's dark and yet fascinating at the same time. Despite the lack of certain technologies they at least have some technology that works but of course the most valued are the automobiles which is to me what makes the post apocalyptic world fascinating because it's a automobile subculture taken to the extreme.
It also really looks like the Mad/insane have truly taken over the earth. And it seems like Max and Furiosa along with others are literally almost the last sane people on Earth. Which really creates that isolation feeling.
Nicholas Hoult as Nux I though was a fun character and actually has a really solid character arc. He's crazy and yet he's actually really smart which makes him useful to the crew.
Tom Hardy is excellent as Max Rochatansky, I really love the voice which is kinda rough and gravelly tone. Max is well still Max, it's true he doesn't say much in the film but Max wasn't known much for talk anyway because he's a man of action. And I like that as usual he's reluctant to do the right thing but he does it anyway because of how driven he is by his conscious and lets face it what else is he going to do.
Charlize Theron was just fantastic as Imperator Furiosa. She's one on my favorite fictional feme fatales up there with Betrix Kiddo (Kill Bill), Ripley (Aliens) and others on my list (I said my list) and literally steals the show. Her character is just true to her name as she is just driven by fury and is just hellbent to her task willing to mow down anyone that gets in her way. I love that she can kick some serious ass and takes crap from no one, she literally almost beats Max in a one on one fisticuff fight which I always find cool seeing a supporting protagonist beating or coming close to beating the main one which I don't see enough of.
Both Max and her have an excellent back and forth, in a way it's sort of the first time Max had a go two person that was a match for him and Furiosa is more that one for him. Both in a way are almost the same in a way as both have been robbed of their family and are mad at the gangs, the world and themselves.
I like that with all three characters they have something in common all three want redemption. For Max in his mind he failed to protect his wife and child from the scum in this world. Nux wants to be a hero but has been playing for the wrong team. Furiosa was practically kidnapped and forced to be one of Joe's solders. This one task in transporting the slave girls to salvation is to them is the thing they need the mos to make some difference in the mad world, and of course what their doing amounts to making a big difference.
The villain I thought was solid, fun and memorable, Immortan Joe played by Hugh Keys Bryne whom played the main villain in the first film. Which is really cool because in a way it makes things come full circle. I really like the look of him, he really looks like Sweet Tooth from the "Twisted Metal" video games. I really like the voice which is menacing and you can tell from his mannerism he is completely crazy and nasty from the inside out, which is just all the more motive for all three protagonists to get away from him.
But like with most of the Mad Max films we're all really in it for the action and automobiles and both have plenty of gas and speed to keep you entertained.
The automobiles are also the stars of the film and their terrific. I really love the designs of each of the automobiles which all look like they could be on the roster list in the "Twisted Metal" video game franchise. Each of them are uniquely colorful, dangerous and crazy looking. From one vehicle that is a mobile rock concert where there are enough amps to make anyone go deaf and there is some crazy mummy guy playing a guitar that also doubles for a flame thrower. Another with a crazy amount of spikes front to back, it's practically a mobile porcupine.
The action is just fantastic, the stunt work and chirography in fight but also automotive driving is spot on. And it's over the top violence which makes it even better where automobiles are just exploding left and right, bodies and body parts are just flying, heads are getting blown off, and so forth.
I really love the fact that this film is kinda one big chase movie which is great because it makes the film simplistic no boring bull crap, the pacing in this film is just constantly going almost like in the film "Speed" where you hardly have time to take a breath. One of the action sequences I really liked was seeing Max just jump on one rival vehicle after another and just beating the crap or killing any of baddies manning them, it just sort of remind me of Swashbulckling action.
Well I've said enough, Max is back and still has plenty of millage for fun.
Rating: 4 stars