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Mad Max: Fury Road
- Director: George Miller
- Writer: George Miller; Brendan McCarthy
- Producer: Bruce Berman; Graham Burke
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Also known as: There and back again...they go, they come back...that's it...
The story was written on a tissue left out in the rain - it dissolves and disintegrates before your very eyes.
If you - like us - expected a re-make of Mad Max...think again. There is a character called Max - more angry than mad - and it is set in a post-apocalyptic Australia with a few barmy vehicles...and, unlike the originals, not a whiff of camp.
Instead, it's an unrelenting 2 hour car chase...well, in truth it's a 1 hour car chase repeated...
Dialogue is kept to a minimum and usually grunted.
The SFX range from the impressive to the ridiculously amateur. The inclusion of the flame-throwing guitar player - daft and dated...just like the director....but hey, it's his baby - and armed with $150,000,000, he can do with it what he wants...he's laughing along with his bank manager!
The road movie rasion d'etre...has been crucified.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and almost everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There's Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland.
Cast & Characters
Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky;
Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa;
Nicholas Hoult as Nux;
Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe;
Josh Helman as Slit;
Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus;
Zoe Kravitz as Toast the Knowing;
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as The Splendid Angharad;
Riley Keough as Capable;
Abbey Lee as The Dag