The king of Ozploitation films is back in this reboot of director George Miller's classic franchise of the lone warrior of the dusty, diesel-fuelled apocalypse. Thirty years ago Max Rockatansky walked off into the sunset at the end of Beyond Thunderdome, an uneven, overblown, embarrassingly mullet-filled and surprisingly Disney-fied dilution of the tough-as-nails character introduced to the world in the eponymous 1979 low-budget debut. Since then, Mel Gibson has gone nuts, George Miller has directed kiddies' fare such as Babe and the Oscar-winning animated dancing penguin feature Happy Feet, and the world has got used to life without Max.Now, after riding roughshod all over the Namibian desert during shooting in 2011, Miller has produced his biggest, baddest and definitely maddest instalment of the action apocalypse adventure series yet.The story is not the strong suit of Fury Road but it goes something like this: Max (Tom Hardy) is a lone surivivalist in a world gone mad who is captured by a badass, water-hoarding maniac called Immortan Joe (played by original 1979 villain Hugh Keays-Byrne). When one of Joe's faithful raiders, Furiosa (our Charlize, with a boyish haircut and bionic arm), decides she has had enough and spirits his four wives to safety in her truck, all hell breaks loose and we are off for two hours of speeding trucks, roaring motorbikes, blood and gore and sheer, glorious, unpretentious silliness as Max and Furiosa team up to save the world, or what is left of it. It is a bit like what might happen if, after a nuclear holocaust, only the Australian Outback was left and then a tomboy found a copy of Smokey and the Bandit and decided to remake it with all the jokes cut out and less dialogue.Hardy's Max is not as cocky as Gibson's and he is required to say very little. Max is a man of action not words. It is Charlize who gets the lion's share of screen time and - unlike Aeon Flux, her terrible action attempt in 2005 - here she gets it right, kicking lots of butt as the stakes get higher and success seems ever more unlikely.Mad Max has always been best when it plays to its B-movie, drive-in strengths and this is perhaps the closest Miller will get to creating the ultimate version of his gritty, petrol-headed, sand-infested universe. Fury Road is a welcome return for one of action cinema's strongest creations. Don't worry about what's going on - just sit back and enjoy the noisy, messy ride.What others sayExtravagantly deranged, ear-splittingly cacophonous and entirely over the top, George Miller has revived his 'Mad Max' punk-western franchise as a bizarre convoy chase action-thriller. Peter Bradshaw, The GuardianIt's a crunching, grinding thing, ornate and ludicrous, bracing, nervy, weird and maddeningly good. Richard Lawson, Vanity FairThe scrap metal parts combine to create something unthinkable, hilarious or obscene and often all three. Robbie Collin, The Telegraph..