Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015
Search results
May 15, 2015 · Three decades after the last film, the oft-maligned “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” Miller finally returns to this desolate landscape for the highly-anticipated “Mad Max: Fury Road,” recasting the title role in the grizzled visage of Tom Hardy and upping the stakes with promises of vehicular mayhem on a level commensurate with what modern ...
Years after the collapse of civilization, the tyrannical Immortan Joe enslaves apocalypse survivors inside the desert fortress the Citadel. When the warrior Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron ...
- (11.3K)
- George Miller
- R
- Tom Hardy
Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | May 17, 2022. Mad Max: Fury Road is a slobbernocking achievement that also happens to be a singular experience, best seen on the most gargantuan screen ...
May 13, 2015 · The long-incubating Mad Max: Fury Road is an R-rated, rocket- fueled romper-stomper, a nonstop chase epic powered by a reported $150 million budget and Miller’s indisputable visionary genius.
- What a lovely day!
- Verdict
By Scott Collura
Posted: May 11, 2015 5:03 pm
In the wasteland of Hollywood action movies -- where over-the-top CGI slugfests, low-stakes drama, and disposable, interchangeable stock characters reign like some kind of masked mutant biker gang leader -- Mad Max: Fury Road arrives like a gut-punch, a visceral return to the sort of R-rated genre pictures of yore that never underestimated their audience, nor took them for granted.
9 Insane Mad Max Characters That We Love
It’s been 30 years since we last saw Mad Max on the big screen, in the Road Warrior-lite Beyond Thunderdome, and a lot has changed since then. Not just in what passes for action franchise moviemaking today, but also in the world of the post-apocalyptic anti-hero himself. Mel Gibson -- long the standard-bearer of V8 Interceptors, dusty leather couture, and a haunted, tragic past -- is gone, replaced by Tom Hardy in what has now become an ageless role. Yes, Max Rockatansky is eternal, as is his plight in the freakish and horrifying Australian outback that exists in the wake of the vaguely defined global catastrophe that frames these films.
That ambiguous back story has always been a hallmark for director George Miller’s series, and it allows the filmmaker to reset Fury Road just a tad. Is this a remake, a reboot, a sequel, or some mix of all three? Who can say, and it doesn’t really matter anyway; the world painted here is reminiscent of the previous films in the series, but also next level, taking the evolution of the End of the World to its next logical, jarring, yet at times beautiful place.
The over-the-top stunts and eccentric characters and designs are all hugely important to Fury Road, as are the troubled figures like Max himself and Furiosa, but it’s the overriding sense of the film’s uniqueness, its striving to be something more than just another action movie, that is most impressive. Mad Max: Fury Road is a one of a kind. Like t...
People also ask
Is Mad Max Fury Road R-rated?
Is Mad Max Fury Road a Apocalypse movie?
Does Tom Hardy take on the Apocalypse in Mad Max Fury Road?
Is Mad Max Fury Road a slobbernocking experience?
May 11, 2015 · Mad Max: Fury Road review – Tom Hardy is a macho Mr Bean in brilliantly pimped reboot. This article is more than 9 years old. Charlize Theron joins Hardy’s lone wolf ex-cop in George Miller ...
May 15, 2015 · Mad Max: Fury Road is an outstanding film, with outstanding direction from George Miller, which was shot outstandingly well. The characters all look so awesome, Max even has a leg brace from a bullet injury from one of the earlier movies. Margaret Sixel definitely deserved the editing Oscar for this film.
