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Mad Max: Fury Road reviewed - your inner 12-year-old will be in heaven

And even if you resist, the film’s unswerving pomposity will batter you into submission

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

16 May 2015

9:00 AM

Mad Max: Fury Road (3D)

Nationwide, 15

No one goes slack-jawed in wonder at the movies any more. In our cyber-enabled times, kid designers can mega-pixelate any old apocalypse on to the screen of your local Imax. It puts the new Mad Max in a strange relationship with its hoary forebears. Mel Gibson first fired up his turbo-jalopy back in 1979 (two sequels followed with ever bigger engines and hair extensions).

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