One Wild Car Chase

Rating: 10/10 (24 August 2016)

I wanted to see this film for the longest time (I missed the theatrical run), and after buying the DVD at Walmart and watching it tonight, I have to admit, I was impressed with the engrossing action.
It's all one hasty road runner epic with barely time to breath. The pace is quick and you have to make sure you pay attention or you'll miss out on important key points to the plot.
The miserable, barbaric and totally cruel future is there which is the principle theme for these Mad Max films A world where nobody trusts each other and everything is all about guns, violence and saving the precious 'juice" to make vehicles move.
This time around, there's beautiful and sacred pregnant women at stake and a hunt for the "Green Place" where everything is a Utopian grassland and an escape from the desert. An exciting goal for the story and even more exciting when there's a twist to the dream and the challenge to meet it.
The violence is non stop and the desperate killing to survive is plainly evident in this film. Max has flashbacks to the death of his wife and daughter and it's too bad the film didn't focus more on that, allowing the viewer to know the reason for Max's angry and hauntingly bitter mentality to the "bad guys".
Charlize Theron is perfect as the 'Rambo Female", but there's no kissing or romantic moments here with Max. It was a brutal "kill or be killed" emotion between the two at the beginning, but after the chaotic clashes with the raging villains, they eventually learned to trust one another.
The barbaric, nuclear wasteland of a despairing future is an old cliché, but this movie brings a refreshing feel to that by making it into one wild and crazy race. In the "Road Warrior", the highway chase was saved towards the end along with the climactic finale, but here, the chase is through the whole movie.
Tom Hardy is excellent as Max and Charlize is equally excellent as the "SHE-RAMBO", but the super quick movements of the characters makes it seem like the film was playing on high speed instead of running at a normal rate. Regardless of the flaws, this movie delivers on entertainment and continuous suspense. It's all on-the-edge-of-your- seat excitement. I highly recommend it.