Part of Action Distraction
Haunted by his turbulent past, Max Rockatansky believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group of women prisoners fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite imperator, Furiosa. They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord marshals all his gangs and pursues the rebels ruthlessly in the high-octane road war that follows. From director George Miller, originator of the post-apocalyptic genre and mastermind behind the legendary Mad Max franchise, this rip-roaring crowd-pleaser returns to the big screen, flame-throwing guitar gimp and all.
“The shock, really, is how tender MAD MAX: FURY ROAD ultimately becomes. The film just wraps that tenderness in one of the most epic action extravaganzas of recent years. It's enough to renew your faith in movies.” —Ty Burr, Boston Globe (May 13, 2015) “Theron does arguably the best work of her career here, artfully conveying the drive in Furiosa’s soul in a way that fuels the entire film…. It’s hard not to see FURY ROAD as an answer to the macho nonsense that so often defines the action genre…. FURY ROAD is a challenge to a whole generation of action filmmakers, urging them to follow its audacious path into the genre’s future and, like Miller, try their hardest to create something new.” —Brian Tallerico, rogerebert.com (May 15, 2015) “FURY ROAD doesn’t look like any film you’ve ever seen — though the story is roughly like a 21st-century feminist take on John Ford’s classic STAGECOACH, set in a post-apocalyptic world as it might be grotesquely imagined by the 15th-century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch…. It’s Theron’s determined wounded warrior — much more than Hardy’s haunted, revenge-seeking road warrior — that ultimately makes this the summer’s first must-see movie.” —Lou Lumenick, New York Post (May 12, 2015)
