Mad Max: Fury Road (DVD REVIEW)
Mad
Max: Fury Road
DVD
Review by Kam Williams
Road
Warrior Reboot Released on DVD
Fury
Road reboots the legendary Mad Max franchise which has been sitting
dormant for several decades. This fourth installment was again
produced, written and directed by Oscar-winner George Miller (for
Happy Feet) who tapped Tom Hardy to replace disgraced Mel Gibson in
the title role as Max Rockatansky, the highway patrol
officer-turned-intrepid road warrior given to dispensing a grisly
brand of vigilante justice.
Set
in 2060 AD, this post-apocalyptic adventure unfolds in the
relentlessly-grim dystopia left in the wake of the series of global
calamities that led to a total breakdown of civilization. At the
point of departure, we find Max haunted by his tragic past and hunted
by desperate scavengers as he drifts around the vast wasteland in a
rusty, rattling, off-road muscle car.
The
stoic gunslinger’s resolve to go it alone is soon tested when he
crosses paths with Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a fearless
alpha female making a break across the desert with former sex slaves
hidden in the hold of her big rig. She’s just freed the traumatized
quintet from the clutches of Immortan Joe (Hugh
Keays-Byrne),
a ruthless tyrant who wants
his breeders back, especially Splendid (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley),
since she’s already pregnant and possibly carrying his first male
heir.
The
enraged warlord has dispatched a caravan of bloodthirsty goons who
will stop at nothing to retrieve his so-called “wives.”
Fortunately, they’ve found a sympathetic soul in Max who agrees to
join forces with Furiosa upon being apprised of their plight.
The
plan is to drive non-stop across the desert to “The Green Place,”
a Shangri-La rumored to be teeming with water, vegetation and other
scarce natural resources. But getting there proves to be all the fun,
as our intrepid hero and heroine negotiate a relentless gauntlet of
evil adversaries in dune buggies outfitted with a very creative
variety of deadly military hardware.
An
edge-of-your-seat, adrenaline-fueled, high body-count splatterfest
that remains riveting from start to finish despite dispensing with
the idea of plot development once the basic premise has been set.
Excellent
(4 stars)
Rated
R for
disturbing images and relentless intense violence
Running
time: 120 minutes
Distributor:
Warner Home Entertainment Group
Blu-ray/DVD
Combo Pack Extras: Maximum Fury: Filming Fury Road; Mad Max: Fury on
Four Wheels; The Road Warriors: Max and Furiosa; The Tools of the
Wasteland; The Five Wives: So Shiny, So Chrome; Fury Road: Crash &
Smash; and deleted scenes.
To order
the Mad Max: Fury Road Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack,
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