'Mad Max: Fury Road' Release Date, Reviews: Pushes Limits of Action with Minimal Special Effects

Basing on the trailer of the movie "Mad Max: Fury Road," it's obvious that George Miller has neither lost his touch nor mellowed with age. Miller, 70, who originated the Mad Max films from 1979 to 85, proves that he is still the master of motorized mayhem, pushing the boundaries further with this new version of his story set in a desolate post-apocalyptic world. This new film makes the previous three films very tame in comparison.

Action in the movie is abundant with very minimal dialogue.

"Whatever my age, I still feel like a kid in my head," said Miller. "I love action movies and when I was making the film I thought about what Hitchcock once said: 'I try to make movies where they don't have to read the subtitles in Japan.'"

The movie, budgeted at $150 million, is one big adrenaline rush, delivered mostly without the help of computers.

"Almost every day was a big stunt day and there were many stunts," Miller chuckled. "It was a marathon 135-days shoot through the Namibian desert."

The movie sees Max (Tom Hardy) and one-armed warrior Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) fleeing across a toxic desert trying to escape warlord Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Bryne) and his motley crew, including a barely recognizable Nicholas Hoult.

What differentiates this action movie is its minimal use of special effects.

"We don't defy the laws of physics. There's no flying men or spacecraft. We not only used real vehicles for the car crashes but we used real people and shot the movie almost in continuity so there's attrition to the vehicles and to the people. We made it look as real as possible, the way we shot movies back in the old days," Miller said.

There are rumors in Hollywood that "Mad Max: Fury Road" is the first in a possible trilogy.

"We never set out to write a trilogy but it took so long to make the movie and ended up with other scripts," said Miller. Taking a breath, he said, finally, "If this does well enough and I've got the appetite to go back into the wasteland, we will see. But that's entirely in the future."

"Mad Max: Road Fury" will hit theaters on May 14, 2015.