Mad Max Fury Road is an out and out action movie. There is no expounding or world building, what little we learn of the world we see for a few seconds before it explodes. It is easy to watch it, go back and be satisfied. Ok, there is no depth, not much of a story. This is definitely not intellectually intense like interstellar. At first, thought the story was very shallow, covered by good storytelling. Like Tarantino. But it was not, there was something hidden in plain sight.
This movie has a heart, and invisibly, casually, destroys the deep cultural norms hidden in every other story, especially every other pop corn action story.
In pop science fiction, especially post apocalyptic fiction, there is one kind of figure who is never, ever the hero. Old Women. In this movie, old women kick ass.
If a Disabled person is in the movie, the entire movie becomes about that person's struggle with that disability. In this movie, it is invisible. No one can think at the end of it that the person without an arm was disabled.
People are accusing the person who invented kickass female protagonists (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) of not making full use of Black Widow in Avengers... well, those people should watch this movie and be happy
The bad guys, as a race trope. Best example is orcs in LOTR. In this story, a nameless one from the morbid horde takes control of his story. This kind of character arc is unprecedented in cinema (is it? please tell me)