A Foot And A Half A Second

Last year, the Mad Max franchise turned forty-five. Later in 2025, Fury Road , the series' unapologetic return to form, and arguable high point, a film that I regard as among my favourites, ( ninth, at least in 2019 ) will turn ten years old. The franchise's influence can be found all over this post-apocalyptic genre, and Fury Road' s shadow over action cinema remains long. Ten years, though, is a long time in film-making; into this interregnum, George Miller provides the perfect petrol-billowing, engine-revving, all-action remedy to this Max-less years, filling in the backstory of Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron in Fury Road, Anya Taylor-Joy ably picking up the reins of the role here), as she seeks to return back to the Edenic green place of her youth. Beginning fifty years after the collapse of civilisation, as seen in Mad Max (1979-although the film's narrative timeline by this point has long contradicted itself to the point of making its hero seemingly a crea...