Picking up after the events of the prior films, George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road finds Max in full on survival mode, constantly haunted by the deaths of the many innocent people he was unable to save. Captured and enslaved by 'the War Boys, an army of men who follow a tyrannical cult leader Immortan Joe, Max finds himself as a designated "blood bag" for a sick member of the clan. Meanwhile Imperator Furiosa, one of Immortan Joe's trusted drivers, betrays the leader, attempting to free his Five Wives, who have been imprisoned by Immortan Joe for the sake of breeding. As the War Boys head in pursuit of the Renegate Imperator Furiosa, Max reluctantly becomes an ally to Furiosa and the Wives, attempting to help them across the desert and back to Furiosa's childhood homeland where she believes they can find peace and life. Mad Max: Fury Road is a fast-paced, action-packed extravangza that puts the petal to the metal and never stops until the credits roll. Fury Road doesn't shed its b-movie roots, it embraces them, offering one of the most boisterous and bonkers studio action films of the decade, that is incredibly imaginantive and creative in the world it presents. While I would not go as far as to say Mad Max Fury Road is the best film in the series, it does feel like the film Geroge Miller always wanted to make. With technology giving him the ability to create a much larger world, Miller injects this film with lots of imaginative carnage, while commenting on a host of topics including religion, cult, hope, and sexual politics. It's incredibly refreshing to see an action film that consists of so many strong female characters, particularly Charlize Theron's Imperator Furiosa, who provides a nice equillibrium to Max's quiet coldness. These woman are enslaved by the cult leader solely for the sake of procreation, with George Miller using this fantastic apocalypic world to comment on the need for feminism in modern society. If there is one way to describe Mad Max: Fury Road it would be chaos, with the seventy year old filmmaker dropping the mic on modern action films and showing everyone what a truly visceral action experience should feel like.
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