It's a crazy wasteland in "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Back in the late-70s and early-80s, Australian filmmaker George Miller had to make most out of a humble budget to be able to make " Mad Max " (1979) and " Mad Max: The Road Warrior " (1981), which starred a very young and pre-Hollywood Mel Gibson, the thrilling post-apocalyptic cult films that they are. Now that, in this day and age, Miller had in hand a million-dollar budget, a high-end technology and established A-list stars like Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron to make " Mad Max: Fury Road " (2015, Australia, 120 mins), the fourth film in the series (about three decades after " Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome "), he would just make sure that this one would never fail to leave a long-lasting impression. And boy how it does! By any means, "Mad Max: Fury Road" is my first best and favorite Hollywood action film for this year (sorry, James Wan's " Fast & Furious 7 " might be immensely entertaining, but it is certainly not the...