Mad Max Fury Road Analysis

People expect mindless action when they watch Fury Road but they end up getting a story about oppressed people pushing back against their oppressors with a feeling of hopefulness despite the setting. Where most action movies are content to check off what they need from a formula and cash the paycheck Fury Road is only content after it has made the audience feel for its characters and hope for them to succeed.
Mad Max: Fury Road is an action movie set in post-apocalyptic Australia, it aims to entertain through action and drama but it also attempts to instill a sense of hope in its audience.
Other subjects similar to it such as The Walking Dead, Resident Evil, and 28 Days Later tend to fulfill the first half of Fury Road’s mission but ignore the second half. Even the color schemes are a sharp contrast, Fury Road is all colors, daylight, electric blue, bright orange. 28 Days Later was shot with film for most of the movie giving the film a muted color scheme.
Mad Max Fury Road’s audience was meant to be the fans of the original Mad Max trilogy but it has quickly gained a cult following of young adults as well.
Action movies should strive to be entertaining and not fall into formulaic patterns.
Max, the main male protagonist is not the leader of the group, at one point literally handing the gun to Furiosa, the female protagonist, simply because she is the better shot between the two of them. Furiosa herself is physically disabled with a prosthetic arm and Max himself still has his leg injury that he sustained from the first movie. Fury Road knows when to be realistic, in its depictions of abuse, injury, and motivation. At the same time Fury Road can still be fun, chases, battles, and interactions between