Mad Max: Fury Road
Academy Award × 6
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An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
What critics thought
One of the most unanimously praised action films in recent memory, Fury Road overwhelmed critics with its sustained kinetic invention and George Miller's total command of large-scale chaos. The rare points of dissent centered on whether two hours of relentless pursuit constitutes a movie or merely a spectacle, and on how much narrative weight the film actually carries beneath the chrome and fire.
“extravagantly deranged, ear-splittingly cacophonous, and entirely over the top”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“A mind-boggling exercise in pure action Mad Max: Fury Road is overwhelming, achieving the sort of visual poetry typically ascribed to Ben-Hur's chariot race or one of Sam Peckinpah's blood ballets”
Robert W. Butler·The Kansas City Star
“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.”
Scott Collura·IGN
“one of the best action duos ever, in one of the best action movies”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
Genres
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Cast & Crew
DirectorGeorge Miller
StarringTom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman
ComposerTom Holkenborg
Mad Max: Fury Road
Academy Award × 6
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
What critics thought
One of the most unanimously praised action films in recent memory, Fury Road overwhelmed critics with its sustained kinetic invention and George Miller's total command of large-scale chaos. The rare points of dissent centered on whether two hours of relentless pursuit constitutes a movie or merely a spectacle, and on how much narrative weight the film actually carries beneath the chrome and fire.
“extravagantly deranged, ear-splittingly cacophonous, and entirely over the top”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“A mind-boggling exercise in pure action Mad Max: Fury Road is overwhelming, achieving the sort of visual poetry typically ascribed to Ben-Hur's chariot race or one of Sam Peckinpah's blood ballets”
Robert W. Butler·The Kansas City Star
“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.”
Scott Collura·IGN
“one of the best action duos ever, in one of the best action movies”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
Genres
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Cast & Crew
DirectorGeorge Miller
StarringTom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman
ComposerTom Holkenborg
Rent/Purchase