Many thought that Mel Gibson’s fall from glory made Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome the last installment in the Mad Max franchise, ending it on a very, very low note. Thank God the director wasn’t gonna be satisfied with that. Now, 30 years after the last and least of the series, a 70 year old George Miller, director of Happy Feet and Babe 2: Pig in the City, as well as the entire Mad Max series, returns to bring the Australian post-apocalyptic action series back to it’s former glory. Mad Max: Fury Road is the perfect reboot, recapturing everything great about Max’s old adventures and leaving out all of the bad. Tom Hardy is flawless in the role of the titular character, just as good as Mel Gibson, Charlize Theron portrayed a powerful and dangerous heroine known as Imperator Furiosa, and Nicholas Hoult played a “war boy” named Nux. The villain, Immortan Joe, was played by Hugh Keays-Byrne, who happened to be the same actor as the one who played the antagonist in the first Mad Max. No film is flawless, but, well, I don’t know, maybe this one is. Everything was style and action, excitement and thrills, and yet, it didn’t seem to matter that there wasn’t much else. There were so many different ways the movie showed power and meaning without much dialogue. I mean, I could watch this dubbed in any language and still understand what was going on most of the time. The meaning came from the way each character was presented, what they were trying to do, and how they acted differently from the start to finish. For example, one might start out just trying to make it out alive, and end up saving the day. Then again, who really even cares about that stuff, I mean there’s a character who has bloody jagged teeth and no eyes and is playing a guitar/axe/flamethrower on a truck full of speakers. That’s honestly enough to get me to the theater. No need for a summary or anything like that, it’s another straight-on A+.
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