A relentless two-hour assault both on the eardrums and the eyeballs, Mad Max: Fury Road is the craziest film of the year so far – and one of the loudest of all time.
For anyone missing Top Gear, here it is on steroids. Really, really strong ones. Even Jeremy Clarkson might recoil from the stench of testosterone.
Australian director George Miller, who invented the whole concept of post-apocalyptic road-rage with the original Mad Max trilogy, again orchestrates affairs, this time with British star Tom Hardy in the title role first taken, in 1979, by Mel Gibson.