Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) by Emily H — 07 Sep 2017

Mad Max: Fury Road seems set to become a classic action movie like Terminator 2 and Die Hard that you can watch again and again. The premise is somewhat simple but the execution is excellent and the film actually has something to say. In a post apocalyptic world, gasoline is of great importance and water has become a luxury horded by tyrants like Immortan Joe who enslaves and uses young men as war boys to fight & die for him and young, healthy women as wives to be used as breeders. Max, played by Tom Hardy, is captured by the war boys and is used as a 'blood bag' for one of the war boys, Nux, played by Nicholas Hoult. On a run for gasoline, the driver of a huge, armoured 'war rig', Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron, drives off course and it's discovered to have helped It Joe's wives escape and that's when the shit really hits the fan.

This film is beautifully shot, with great costumes and the action in this film is incredibly well done, with the majority being practical stunts and effects in an almost relentless car chase that keeps ramping up the tension and the excitement. For an action movie, Mad Max has a surprising amount of depth and story to it and brings us a great new female action hero, which are few and far between, in the form of Furiosa, whose story the film focuses on rather than Max. Overall, an incredibly fun, action packed film that's well worth watching the making of as well just for the stunts.