Mad Max: Fury Road

     Mad Max: Fury Road is a great movie, even better than the Avengers in my opinion. Way better. This movie is an exercise in cinema. Meaning that there's very little plot, the acting is emotive, and the action of just non-stop. In fact, you could say this whole movie is nothing but one big chase.
     First of all, the movie starts with our hero, Max out in the desert with his car eating a lizard. He gets captured by these skinny bald headed guys and gets brought back to the Citadel, a major city in this dystopian universe. They cut his hair and we see that his hair is going to get donated to people there. I found it weird how they didn't just shave off his hair so he'd look like them. Anyways, Max fights and tries to escape but they end up man handling him and chaining him up again. It then cuts scenes to where there's this old guy with long white hair wearing some kind of armor, and some kind of mouthpiece over his face. He speaks to all the people in the Citadel from the top of the place, like some kind of Furor or Adolf Hitler, which that's basically who he is in this picture. Basically this guy controls all the people in the Citadel and is their King, telling them that he will take them to Valhalla.  He controls the water, the breeding, and God knows what else in the place so he's the ruler of everyone there. Later, we find out that his brothers are also kind of big shots running people. And then we have the main storyline of the whole movie. This woman took the King's wives, including his pregnant wife, and is taking them to her home village. Thus begins the long chase that is the whole movie.
     Next, once the King finds out his wives are gone he goes out with a ton of his bald headed men and rides out on the Fury Road to get them back. There's tons of action, firefights, and music. The King's entourage even included men playing big drums, and a guy playing a double necked guitar with a ton of amps behind him, which was one of my favorite scenes in the movie. This is all happening while they're driving on the road, making for an exciting picture. So after Max fights the wives and the woman driving the truck, they find out working together to battle the King's guys trying to drive them off the road is the best idea. Once they find out that the woman's village is no longer there, and that the green trees that used to be there have been replaced by desert and crows, they come to the conclusion that they should go back to the Citadel, and make an attempt to take it, thus getting the water and everything else that comes with it. So they fight their way back, kill tons of the bald headed freaks, and even kill the King. Once they get back to the Citadel, they are recognized as heroes by the people and are brought up to the high place within the citadel. Cut scene. Fin.
     Lastly, the good thing about this movie is that even though it was lacking in plot and dialogue, the dialogue was emotive and the actors were definitely feeling it (I'm really feeling it!). After a while the fire fights and the off-road driving got old though, for me at least. But they chose to go with the more action oriented style, and it really payed off. I would say this movie has just as much action scenes in it as the new Avengers, maybe more. Also, it was interesting that this movie isn't really about Max at all. It's all about the woman driving the truck, with the mechanical arm. Once they get back to the Citadel, she and the rest of the living wives go up, but Max gets lost within the crowd. So, she's going to be in charge, not Max. Also, I found it messed up that the pregnant wife ends up getting run over. And the King has a guy slice her up to check the baby, and of course it was dead. Kind of messed up in my opinion. Pretty great movie though, I would recommend it to anyone who's into action flicks, car flicks, or the original Mad Max series. What a lovely day.