![]() It's as if Judge Dredd, the cars from Furious 7, and the tank epic Fury had a head-on collision. I'm not even kidding when I say this sort of imagery would fit right in. The only thing missing here are leather-clad Dominatrixes whipping their slaves on another ridiculously-conceived vehicle, while Max and Furiosa's team is pursued. The menagerie of mayhem starts with the those vehicles, including a 50-loudspeaker monstrosity with a rock guitarist threading Heavy Metal riffs from a axe that also shoots out flames, just because it can. The scale and scope of what is essentially a non-stop chase across the desert is stupendous, enhanced by the now-classic Frankensteined desert vehicles, and mixing in a bizarre fetish of nipple-clamped warlords, silver-spray painted battle teeth, and radiation-produced cankles and boils. I'm not kidding when I say this film features the most intense and innovative action with vehicles I've seen.ever. It defies expectation for what a summer movie should be: shrew in the way it sucks in the viewer, smart in its efficient storytelling, and completely uncompromising in its action. But as the film progresses, its true nature emerges: disturbing, ugly, and gritty are merely placeholders to describe one of the most intense and unique films I've seen in awhile. From the moment the engine of Max's Interceptor roars to life, you know this one is going to be loud. Road feels like the much wilder, younger brother to The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome who's had cocaine and three energy drinks before 9am. But the cost of escaping - and surviving - might be too much for a man haunted by his past and facing certain death in this maelstrom of decay. ![]() Hell bent on delivering the women out of Joe's long reach, Furiosa enlists Max's help to get them to The Green Place and Furiosa's all-female Vuvalini motorcycle gang. When the War Rig driver Furiosa (Charlize Theron) runs away with Joe's prized women, Joe sends out a menagerie of Frankensteined vehicles filled with Bullet Farmers and War Boys to get them back. Set in the mire of a post-apocalyptic world, one-man wrecking crew Max (Tom Hardy) is captured and delivered to Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), whose tyrannical leadership has spawned a motley collection of desperate followers like the War Pup Nux (Nicholas Hoult), who believes it's his duty to die in battle. ![]()
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