Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth post-apocalyptic movie of George Miller’s saga, is making a comeback on the big screen. Warner Bros is slating its global release for 15 May after it officially hits the theatres at the 68th Cannes Film Festival on May 14, with US filmmakers Joel and Ethan Cohen presiding over the jury.

Queensland-born-and-raised Miller, though, has already started to ‘exhibit’ parts of the film in early screenings in order to get some of his most devoted fans’ perspectives regarding what works and what doesn’t in his fourth attempt to break Hollywood with his dystopian saga.

Thirty years after the titular comic hero made it on film, there will be no Mel Gibson cameo, as Mad Max Rockatansky returns in the flesh of Tom Hardy.

The English actor shot down all rumours of the film failing to encapsulate the character with some first rave reviews by the lucky ones who got to see the test-screenings. Hardy may not say ‘maybe’ as often, yet he manages to shape up into the identity of the character whilst offering an ever-more spectacular take on Mad Max.

The Greek Australian director, now 70, will introduce his most fierce and darkest spawn of the 1979 instant worldwide hit, making it a worthy and equally engaging, gritty and bleak successor. As Miller himself reassured his followers, the action movie he has wanted to make for so long, featuring breath-taking acting, plot and special effects.

In the new biker gang dominated wasteland world fighting over petrol and water, Max (Tom Hardy) meets the fearsome Imperator Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron. Furiosa first comes across as a villain, leading a mission to siphon gas from a local town, and she partners with mutant Nux, played by Nicholas Hoult.

Mad Max is captured by the evil elder mutant, Immortan Joe, to be harvested by the sickly. It latter becomes apparent that Furiosa is merely a cover to smuggle and save Immortan Joe’s breeders – among them Zoe Kravitz and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

Charlize Theron gives another remarkable performance as she uncannily balances between cruelty and sensibility, whilst carrying out the character’s daily regime in a prosthetic.