A pleasant surprise.

Rating: 7/10 (29 November 2015)

I got a chance to watch this for free, and was a little curious anyway. The first part of the film was fast and chaotic; it didn't seem very promising. Tom Hardy seemed hardly worthy of following up Mel Gibson's legendary portrayal of futuristic hero Mad Max. But I decided to pull through.
The film may seem pretty simple and straightforward, and in a way it is, but it is was also quite entertaining and there were a lot of little (and big) things going on. Hardy turned out to be an okay successor to Gibson, and Charlize Theron was even more than okay. The rest of the cast played a great variety of characters, of whom the leaders and Nux (Nicholas Hoult - it took me a while to recognize this 'boy') impressed me most. And those models weren't hard to look at, at all.
The biggest fun of the film is in, you'll not be surprised, the action sequences on and around the 'war rig'. The guitar player, the motorcyclists, explosions, and what not, the list is seemingly endless. And then there are some pretty atmospheric intermissions, for a good deep breath, before it all starts up again.
I'm still very much in favour of the first Mad Max film as the best of the series, but this one was more than doable.
A good 7 out of 10.