Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Review Mad Max Fury Road

Hell has never been shot so beautifully. In the future, after several wars, the world is a nothing but a shadow of its former self. Water and oil have become scarce and the world has changed into a big desert. Max (Tom Hardy) has survived it all, but is still struggling with visions of people he wasn´t able to save. He´s captured by the War Boys, a private army of tyrannical Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and is used as a “bloodbag” for a sick War Boy, Nux (Nicholas Hoult). Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a confidante of Immortan Joe. Her assignment is to drive a big truck, the War Rig, to a nearby town to get gasoline. She leaves, but leaves the road and when Immortan Joe realizes what she´s doing, he sends out his War Boys to stop her. Max involuntarily gets involved as he´s strapped on the front of one of the cars and he has to try to survive. Continue reading

Mad Max (1979)

Through the years I’ve seen a lot Mad Max trilogy related pictures, but never watched the movies themselves. I knew nothing very little about them, except that Mel Gibson was starring in it. When I watched it it became clear (very quickly) that this movie wasn’t made on a big budget. Despite the small budget the end result is worth watching.
The movie is set in the future where the Australian roads are being terrorised by motorcycle gangs and it’s up to the police to catch them. That’s enough reason to film a lot of car chases. Continue reading