He's captured by an army of War Boys - orphans kidnapped and brainwashed by a cruel, vicious tyrant named Immortan Joe who rules over a place called the Citadel. He's not a hero, not the kind that this story needs anyway, and he spends much of the film tossed from one life-threatening situation to another.
Tom Hardy's Mad Max begins the film as something considerably less than human, a shell of a man who wanders a dusty world haunted by his past. Miller has always used the Mad Max franchise to illuminate social justice issues, but with Fury Road he disguises bolder accusations among sand storms and War Boys and tanker chases through desolate deserts and deadly terrain. Back then, we would've written off Fury Road as futuristic sci-fi, an enjoyable apocalyptic romp, a live-action spectacle with nothing more to offer.īut back then, we didn't know the answer to the question "Who killed the world?" Back then, we couldn't have imagined a world wasted and ravaged, barren and robbed of life's most basic necessity: water. and Canada during the early '70s, when petroleum shortages led to high gas prices and rising tensions in the Middle East.īack then, Max was a reluctant hero.
It mirrored the real-world energy crisis plaguing countries like the U.S. Civilization had deteriorated following an unnamed disaster that left gangs and violent tribes fighting over resources, the most important being oil. The post-apocalyptic adventure flick from George Miller continues a franchise that's been around for decades, when Mel Gibson still sported leather cut-offs and wild hair, searching for vengeance and redemption in a barren wasteland.īack then, Max Rockatansky was a gruff police officer, tasked with enforcing law and order in a lawless, chaotic world. It's a question posited plenty of times during Mad Max: Fury Road.
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