Mad Max Fury Road: behind the scenes

Fans of gratuitous explosions, unlikely stunts and outright vehicular warfare, step forward. You'll be wanting to watch the video above.

Mad Max: Fury Road hits cinemas today, kick-starting the post-apocalyptic desert motor-gang franchise in quite epic style. The $150m orgy of car-chase destruction, starring Brit Tom Hardy in the title role opposite Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult, is essentially the ultimate car chase film.

It's a two-hour, unrelenting battle between freakish muscle cars, armored big rigs and a jump-happy monster truck. Now and again, a conversation even threatens to break out.

This behind-the-scenes video features commentary from the film's Oscar-winning director George Miller, and Colin Gibson, who TG caught up with earlier this week to discover the secrets of the 130 vehicles dreamt up to star in Fury Road. As you'll see, he might have overdone things a tad...