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Mad Max: Fury Road is one of those movies where just saying you liked the movie doesn’t cut it. You got to see it to experience it. I have watched this movie so many times, every viewing I find something new. Post Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Mad Max: Fury Road has raised the bar for action movies; it has set a new benchmark. Similar to T1 & T2, this is also one long chase movie. The Story progresses along with action, accompanied by adrenaline pumping music and sound effects. Every scene is complete, i.e., has a beginning and an ending, with flares going up at the beginning of the first chase and a flare going out ending it.

The story is set in an apocalyptic desert landscape, where everyone is crazy, fighting for basic needs (like water) with a single instinct: to survive. In this world, a woman tries to flee from a despotic leader along with few other female prisoners in search of Green Place. On the way she meets another rebel, Max.

Director is impatient as he plunges, immerses you into his fantasy world within few minutes in to the movie. He keeps throwing things at you throughout that stimulate your guts, brain, and the heart. Just fifteen minutes in to the movie, you are already bombarded with Gas Town, bullet farm, Aqua Cola, Buzzards, half-life war boys, Universal donor, blood bag, radiation wounds, water scarcity, sour earth, breeders, mothers’ milk, ride to eternal, Valhalla, Redeemer!! Each one of these could be a title for a Grindhouse movie – hope Robert Rodriguez is listening. While you try to grasp these things, out of the blue, riding the sand dunes is a flame throwing guitarist on a monster truck with amplifiers, who gets a great introduction shot. The guitarist appears multiple times throughout the movie, which makes you feel like the director is showing off his creativity.

Unlike other movies which start with a great premise but run out of steam half way through, this movie has creative ideas strewn around till the end, Green place, marshland, salt flats, matriarchal society Vuvalini, People Eater, stick people, Polecats. Pretty much you are at the edge and glued to your seat holding your breath with the adrenaline rush.

While one can watch it as an action flick, the director does pack in interesting social criticism in the movie – dystopian world with single instinct of survival, organized religion with despotic leader, eternal ride with metal paint, ecological disasters, world without water, gasoline wars. For all the action that happens in the movie, there is no blood (except 1 or 2 quick shots), which is a big plus.

What struck me most is the amount of creative work the Director and team has put in every frame. Action scenes are fantastic and visceral. Director doesn’t settle for ordinary or dull shots. Each frame has his stamp on it with something new, something fresh. They have to get the sketch for each frame of the movie with all the details. This film is a commendable piece of work from a director who is in his 70s.

There are scenes that will keep lingering in your head for a long time, blood transfusion from Max to Nux on the run, flame throwing guitarist, vehicles entering the sand storm, war boys flying through the sand storm, polecats swinging over speeding vehicles, breeders washing and removing chastity belt in the desert, bag with seeds, Nux tracing the bug and gulping it, stick people in marshland. Then there are interesting one-liners that gives you smile, ‘All this for a family Squabble. Healthy babies’, ‘You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome’, Mediocre Morsov, mediocre’, ‘What a day!! What a lovely day!!’.

I can’t stop raving about this movie. Bottom-line: If you haven’t seen this yet, watch it. This movie is one of a kind. No, you don’t have to see the earlier Mad Max movies. Only connection to earlier movies is Max and his automobile. Watching it online on Amazon Prime, you get to see few additional scenes that were cut out in cinema halls. I could notice two, mother’s milk production line (!!), and few extra seconds when Immortan Joe’s mask gets pulled out.