Returning to the original premise of the “Mad Max” post-apocalyptic vision of the 1970s, this George Miller violence and stunt festival (80-90% real stunts according to what I looked at) creates a veritable Cirque du Soleil of homicidal gags. It pits Max the Damaged (Tom Hardy, an actor I really enjoy) and war-engine driver Furiosa (Chalize Theron, another favorite) trying to escape from a water-warlord with a band of his wives and one ‘warboy’ Nux (Nicholas Hoult). Nux is the only character with anything interesting to say in this insanity and, bizarrely, was the most enjoyable to watch. This is not, however, about ideas except to the extent that it reinforces the imperative that we “don’t follow leaders, and watch your parking meters”. It is rather all about the journey to hell to get back where you started. The journey is everything. Hardy and Theron are perfectly fine but their lines can’t fill more than a few pages of script and so never really develop as characters, but this is all about the amazing stunts and pure, high-octane escapism. Bronwen walked out early, disgusted. I ‘enjoyed’ the insanity