When his Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) goes rogue, stealing away his prized breeders, all hell is unleashed to recover them and deliver vengeance.
War Boy Nux (Nicholas Hoult), living out the last of his cancerous half-life, isn't up to joining the pack until hooked up to a blood bag: a nameless feral wanderer (Tom Hardy) snatched up from the wastes.
No good will come of this.
CW: lots of grim, weird post-apocalyptic misogyny and violence
"Who killed the world"
Not my first viewing, I watched it this time in the 'Black & Chrome' edition but I think the original colour version works better overall.
Rebooting a franchise after a 30 year gap is quite a task but George Miller was up to it.
Much was made of the movie not being about Max Rockatansky at release but after the first movie he was always just a leaf on the breeze of the apocalypse, blown in by events and then left by the side of the road. A shell of a man with no real goals or ideals jerking to old impulses from when he was still whole.
Here we have a redemption story for Furiosa and Nux, both hostages to Immortan Joe in different ways, Max is just a catalyst and enabler.
There is almost no conventional story: it's essentially two massive extended chase scenes involving some of the most impressive stunt work of modern cinema sandwiched between reasons for them to exist. Yet it is laden with worldbuilding and mostly unspoken meaning.
You'll either take to it or you won't, 10/10.
I watched this having just seen Furiosa and this is still the better movie. The two complement each other well though: Furiosa is a grudge taking years to mature and Fury Road is finding something of value to do once you're free of it.