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MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

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(Incredible movie making)

We’ll start off by saying that this movie isn’t for everyone. It is violent, at times depressing, and pretty weird.

Joyce wouldn’t go for a 5 for those reasons, but she agreed with me that it was movie making at its best. And if ever a movie was meant to be seen in 3D, “Mad Max: Fury Road” is it.

In spite of all the violence, this sequel, 30 years after the last one, is a tale of hope, survival and redemption. Tom Hardy replaces Mel Gibson as the former cop who teams up with the intense Fiona (Charlize Theron) to bring the wives of a despotic leader to “The Green Place” of her childhood.

The movie is basically a “chase movie,” with Max, Fiona and a fascinating character named Nux (Nicholas Holt) banding together to save five women fleeing from The Citadel, which is not a very pleasant place to exist.

Director George Miller and his huge crew (the credits go on forever at the end) have created weird, fascinating characters and a diverse fleet of vehicles that race over the desert, mountains and mud flats of Namibia. Dozens of stunt men are used to make the fighting so realistic. There is one scene with fighters swinging from tall, bending poles, flying through the air, that is absolutely breathtaking.

We’re not fans of 3D, but this movie gave us a new appreciation of how it can be used to enhance the action. There is not only the feeling of depth, but objects seem to fly right into the audience. I actually ducked at one point.

The movie literally rolls along at a fast pace for two hours, pausing occasionally to let us catch our breath.

As depressing and violent as the story is, we are left with hope for the future. If you can take the violence, you will be in for something like you have never seen on the big screen before.

Rated R for that violence.

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