Mad Max

Mad Max: Fury Road starts out promising, but confuses itself for a feminist manifesto

[caption id="attachment_2625" align="alignnone" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Orlando Weekly[/caption] It’s been three decades since the last movie in the Mad Max franchise (the third film, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) came out in 1985, but director George Miller has finally treated us to a fresh installment — and what an installment it is! The new film, titled Mad Max: Fury Road, is a two-hour long thrill ride that gives us some of the most exciting and creative action scenes possibly in cinematic history. In fact, if it weren’t for the painfully blatant tones of feminist propaganda and insufferably independent female characters…

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