Her scantily clad female cargo - too beautiful, by far - may look like they just stumbled out of the VIP area at a music festival, but they prove tough and resourceful, to the extent that Max himself sometimes feels like a sidekick. Though Theron’s character sports a metal arm in place of an amputated limb, her entire body might as well be made from wrought iron. When a trusted truck driver (Charlize Theron) escapes with Joe’s harem of pregnant young wives stowed in the hold, her pursuers take Max along for the ride. In the breathless flurry of action that comprises the film’s opening quarter, Max is captured by a tribe of white-painted cultists, led by an impressively coiffed tyrant called Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne, who also played the villain in the first “Mad Max” film in 1979). It’s tempting to imagine what the late Heath Ledger - Miller’s original choice - might have brought to the role, but also hard to grumble with what we’ve got here. Mad Max: Fury Road ( Maddo Makkusu Ikari no desu Rodo) Ratingīurly British actor Tom Hardy takes over from Gibson as the eponymous road warrior, trumping his predecessor’s physical presence without ever quite matching his bug-eyed intensity.
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