This review contains spoilers.
Joe’s soldiers—a race of bald-headed, white-painted grease monkeys known as the War Boys—are one of the movie’s most ingenious innovations. Brainwashed into devoting their entire lives to the army, the War Boys power Joe’s fleet of military vehicles literally with their own blood—in this future hell, bodily fluids are used interchangeably with gasoline. (This detail suggests a comic literalizing of the protest slogan “No blood for oil.”) When we meet Max (Tom Hardy, taking over for Mel Gibson), he’s in the process of getting captured by a band of War Boys, who plan to convert him into a human gas tank. He ends up powering a vehicle that’s driven by Nux (Nicholas Hoult), a dogmatic young man who wants nothing more than to die in battle for Joe. After Nux and Max get separated from the army, they come to assist Furiosa and the women, gradually recognizing the women as worthy peers.
Directed by George Miller
