The Money heard the roar of Mad Max: Fury Road coming over the hill. Jake Paltrow’s repackaged sci-fi neo-western (it was called Young Ones in the US) reeks of cheap knock off. In fact, it’s a masterwork of getting by on the little you have. In a near-future US where the water stocks are low, Ernest (Michael Shannon) and his son, Jerome (Kodi Smit-McPhee), scramble to keep his land arable and out of the hands of his daughter’s ambitious boyfriend, Flem (Nicholas Hoult). Paltrow – brother of Gwyneth – makes up for a lack of budget with a surfeit of ideas. There’s enough cheap wizardry to put George Miller to shame. But weirdly, it works. There hasn’t been as convincing a sci-fi dustbowl story since the original Mad Max. Fury Road’s coming on at speed, but Road to Fury is burning rubber.
