Mad Carnival

Rating: 5/10 (14 November 2019)

Fury Road has a great feature, and that is Charlize Theron, who gives a commanding performance in what is a selfless savior hero role: driven to act by desperate revulsion at her life and forlorn hope of redemption. She plays this really well, and certainly the film is centred on her almost character experience.
Besides this the film displays itself like a symphony of carnival tricks, complete with clown and freak performers in a mad madly of heightened improbability; building to extensive intensely choreographed almost physical comedy routines.
Max in all of it seems less a road warrior and more of a trapeze artist teetering above a big tent cacophony.
If you like it you probably love it, but personally I only appreciated Charlize Theron's impeccable contribution.
In terms of story telling, beneath the clownish stylistic surface features, there isn't anything else of note to see here in my opinion. Nothing remarkable or particularly new for this genre or this filmmaker.
I personally prefer Mad Max 2 by a margin and overall I like the etchings of daily decay evidenced by the original Mad Max at the initiation of this property.
I do see much style and practical artifice and one standout turn in Fury Road so I give this film a STRONG 5/10 score in my personal ratings