Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult. Dir. George Miller, Warner Bros., 2015 #1 This writeup is for potheads. If you're prone to feeling a touch anxious when you get high, and if you get too high because you didn't smoke for a few days, and if you're hypertensive in the bargain, Mad Max: Fury Road is not your movie. It will start off fine, and remain so until the last 30 minutes, at which point director director George Miller has the tension ratcheded so high and is moving so fast you will have to turn off the TV and sit quietly and breathe until you don't feel weird anymore. I had to do just that 100 minutes ago. I ate a little, took a short walk. I'm almost calm enough to survive the last 20 minutes. If that's not a rave, I'm not fat. #2 After seeing Mad Max:Fury Road, you will never think of the abomination known as Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome again. If, like me, your gold standard of relentless action movies has been Mad Max 2 since it was ...
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