‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ is a rare action movie in today’s times in that that it looks and feels like the product of a fully realised vision. It possesses the vital ingredient missing in most CGI-laden summer blockbusters: a sense of clockwork synchronicity between its various departments. The cinematography, costumes, make-up, background score, and action sequences don’t come across as disparate elements fighting individually for the viewer’s attention — they work as one unit to serve the script and that alone.

With Mad Max: Fury Road, Miller shows that if done right, even the most crassly commercial of genres can be powerful, idealistic and cinematic. Action can be nuanced without losing its fun elements. Sure, it might take 30 years to come together, but by George, Miller’s done it.

…a dazzling continuation of the man who is yet angry after three decades.

At 70, Miller has directed the most spectacular action movie of the last few years. Mad Max: Fury Road is unabashed, visceral, poetic. One need only compare its pounding action scenes to the staid, formulaic combat in the recent Avengers sequel to see how a skilled director can bring grandeur and imagination to blockbuster moviemaking.

A visceral reboot of a franchise that tries to rise above the fun and frivolity of a summer blockbuster and largely succeeds.

…thank the Gods of Cinema that George Miller, who directed all three earlier Mad Max films, never gave up on his signature project! For what we have here is an enormously entertaining film that passes on the baton of the classic ‘road warrior’ saga to a new generation of cinemagoers.