Five years after Mad Max: Fury Road revolutionized the action movie genre, director George Miller is still promising there's more Max and Imperator Furiosa to come. On this IMDbrief, we break down what the next movie might be. Chris Stuckmann reviews Mad Max: Fury Road, starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Nathan Jones, Zoë Kravitz, Riley Keough, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Abbey Lee, Courtney Eaton.
In MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, violence is ultimately linked to madness. It's amazing that Miller has been in charge of the Mad Max series for so many Families can talk about Mad Max: Fury Road's violence. With so much destruction, what does the movie seem to say about violence in general?
Mad Max: Fury Road will be the film to beat for a long time coming, and the new high-water mark against which to judge action and blockbuster Fury Road seems aimed at dudes who fetishize chrome and steel, but Miller plants seeds of bolder, more incendiary ideas within the bro-fantasy. Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron take on the apocalypse in this breathtaking reboot. How to describe the brutal and brilliant cinematic fireball that director George Miller hurls at us in Mad Max: Fury Road? Director George Miller strikes black gold with Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron. Movies are louder than ever, thanks in no small part to the Inception BRAAAAM effect. Mad Max: Fury Road brings us back to filmmaker George Miller's vision of a post-apocalyptic world, where we once again find former cop/drifter Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) driving through the wasteland, trying to stay one gear-shift ahead of vehicular marauders on his tail.
Trailer Mad Max: Fury Road
Like the other Mad Max films, Fury Road is set in a post-apocalyptic future after a war over oil destroyed civilization. Unlike the other Mad Max films, it stars Tom Hardy instead of Mel Gibson as Max, a former cop and self-described "road warrior" struggling to survive in the ruins of Australia. The making of Mad Max: Fury Road could make up a great book or documentary, but come-what-may, the long-awaited fourth Mad Max movie has arrived.
It's been thirty years since the last Mad Max movie. While the franchise has remained vaguely popular or at least somewhat remembered, it's not. Read the Empire Movie review of Mad Max: Fury Road. Imagine a movie where Tom Hardy is the point of calm.