MAD MAX FURY Road, the fourth installment of the dystopian franchise, reaches our cinemas on Friday.
To say people are looking forward to it is an understatement.
The first reviews for the film, which opens the Cannes Film Festival this Thursday, have begun to surface and it looks like good news for rabid Mad Max fans.
Critics are praising both Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron for their turns in the film, whilst also commending the film as a whole load of fun.
Letâs take a closer look, shall we?
Variety described the film as âtwo hours of ferocious, unfettered B-movie bliss â and âexhilarating gonzo entertainmentâ.
In fact, the publication basically likens it to heaven.
âŚascends to that rare level of action-movie nirvana where a filmmakerâs sheer exuberance in every detail becomes one with the audienceâs pleasure.
The Guardian is similarly hyperbolicâŚ
The newspaperâs film critic Peter Bradshaw wrote that it was âextravagantly deranged, ear-splittingly cacophonous, and entirely over the topâ.
He awarded it four stars and concluded that it was âentirely dementedâ.
While Vanity Fair predicted it would be the best thing weâd see this summer
The magazine says that the blockbuster is a âdaring, fascinating, thrilling jolt of original energyâ.
I doubt there will be a more rousing potential blockbuster released this summer. Go see it. Itâs maddeningly good.
Well, weâre sold.
Empire gave it five stars and called it âthe work of a visionaryâ
Maxâs re-enfranchisement is a triumph of barking-mad imagination, jaw-dropping action, crackpot humour, and acting in the face of a hurricane.
According to Rotten Tomatoes, the film has received just one lone bad review thus far.
From The Daily Mirror of all places.
The paper called the film âdepressingly hollowâ.
Oh well, you canât please everyone.
