A polished, testosterone-fuelled ride

GEORGE Miller's high-octane reboot Mad Max: Fury Road is the extremely noisy, brutally intense and wildly entertaining product of a warped imagination. It's nice to know that after 30 years in limbo, the man who created the classic Road Warrior series still knows how to push the post-apocalyptic, action-movie envelope.

Miller's latest instalment, set in the not-too-distant future, spent years in development hell, but has roared back to life, thanks to a budget that is in excess of US$150 million (compared to a measly $350,000 for the first Mad Max film in 1979) and a plot that is not much more complicated than an epic car chase across a …