Home video review: 'Mad Max: Fury Road' is pure madness wrapped in fanboy pulp

August 29, 2015 at 7:00PM
FRD-02064r Film Name: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Copyright: © 2015 WV FILMS IV LLC AND RATPAC-DUNE ENTERTAINMENT LLC - U.S., CANADA, BAHAMAS & BERMUDA © 2015 VILLAGE ROADSHOW FILMS (BVI) LIMITED - ALL OTHER TERRITORIES Photo Credit: Jasin Boland Caption: CHARLIZE THERON as Furiosa in Warner Bros. Picturesí and Village Roadshow Picturesí action adventure ìMAD MAX: FURY ROAD,î a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
Charlize Theron in “Mad Max: Fury Road.” (The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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Pure madness

If you're a devotee of director George Miller's earlier Mad Max adventures, you're in for a thrilling reunion with Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy in "Mad Max: Fury Road" (R, Warner). If you haven't met this international treasure yet, prepare for a treat. This epic of the car chase genre is a gleefully violent vertigo ride, defeating your expectations about what action movies do. "Fury Road" is amazing, dark, disreputable, playful fun, pure madness wrapped in fanboy pulp. And every step of the way it is breathtaking. A plot synopsis would reveal part of the film's fireworks, and this is about thrills, not plots. Contains intense violence, disturbing images and brief nudity.

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