"I used to be a cop," says the man who only very late in the proceedings of Mad Max: Fury Road, owns that his name is actually Max. "Fury Road" is a kind of continuation of the Max Max franchise, some thirty years after the third film in the series, "Beyond Thunderdome" came and unceremoniously went. However, from the first memorable Mad Max film to this most recent, there is a kind of honing of character, from a specific man with a specific job to a near-mythical character roaming, Western fashion, a dusty, post-apocalyptic world. Not quite a man with no name, but very close. As the Mad Max films have gotten less specific in terms of character and place (most of the desert action here was filmed in Namibia), "Fury Road's" more international cast is fitting. So too the presence of Englishman Tom Hardy in the role of the eponymous wanderer. Mr. Hardy's voice has drifted sonorously if a little vaguely all over the globe in r...