She makes off with her massive War Rig carrying Immortan Joe’s most prized “possessions” - the beautiful, perfect “wives” he keeps locked in a vault to breed his future heirs - and leads his murderous minions on an epic chase across hundreds of miles of wasteland, hoping to keep them all alive long enough to reach safety. His most fervent followers, the “War Boys” are fully indoctrinated in the cult he’s built around himself, with his divinity and divine right to rule at its heart - they gleefully live for the chance to drive and die carrying out his will, for in doing so they hope to earn a place in a better afterlife.īut one of his top lieutenants, the Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), sees through the lies. Immortan Joe controls the lives of his followers by hoarding things like water, shelter, and women, but his most important element of control is belief. Though certainly a formidable target, Max at the very start of the film finds himself overwhelmed and taken prisoner by fanatical servants of the warlord Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne), who rules the lives of thousands from the top of “The Citadel”, a massive fortress carved out of massive rock formations jutting like knives out of the desert wastes.
Tormented by visions of past failures and lost loved ones, he steers his way clear of people and settlements, but sometimes people who want what little he still has come looking for him. Played by Tom Hardy this time, “Mad Max” is still the haunted, solitary figure driven only the need to survive that Mel Gibson last portrayed twenty years ago. Max looks a bit different this time, too, but only on the outside. It’s just gotten a whole lot bigger and scarier. There’s no mistaking that what we’re seeing is the same dystopian world and the same “Mad Max” Rockatansky that Miller introduced us to decades ago. Unlike so many sequels that take too long to produce and thus arrive far too late to add anything of value to the series, Fury Road takes advantage of modern film making techniques to ratchet the intensity up an insane notch while retaining the tone and spirit of the original films. Minimalist in characterization and dialogue, over-the-top and bombastic in direction and action choreography, Mad Max: Fury Road is exactly the sort of masterfully schizophrenic film making that fans of George Miller’s original trilogy of “Mad Max” films would and should expect in a new entry in the iconic series.
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