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- 100HitfixDrew McWeenyHitfixDrew McWeenyThere is nothing easy or predictable about what George Miller delivers with Mad Max: Fury Road, a stone-cold action master class, beautiful and brainy and startling in the ways it throws off the current definition of the blockbuster.
- 100VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangThere is gargantuan excess here, to be sure — and no shortage of madness — but there is also an astonishing level of discipline.
- 100The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinThe world of Mad Max has always been welded together from bits of whatever was lying around, and the films’ brilliance has always been in their welding – the ingenious ways in which their scrap-metal parts were combined to create something unthinkable, hilarious or obscene, and often all three.
- 100Time OutDavid EhrlichTime OutDavid EhrlichMarrying the biting frenzy of Terry Gilliam’s film universe with the explosive grandeur of James Cameron, Miller cooks up some exhilaratingly sustained action. But the key to this symphony of twisted metal is how the film never forgets that violence is a sort of madness.
- 95TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeWhere Fury Road stands apart from so much of today’s action cinema is that the human element remains front and center.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe first two Max features ran barely 90 minutes and it takes guts and real confidence to dare push a straight chase film with very little dialogue to two hours. But Miller has pulled it off by coming up with innumerable new elements to keep the action compelling.
- 83The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezCome for the blistering, full-tilt action, stay for the thought-provoking consideration of the post-apocalypse.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThat adjective in the title is accurate. Extravagantly deranged, ear-splittingly cacophonous, and entirely over the top, George Miller has revived his Mad Max punk-western franchise as a bizarre convoy chase action-thriller in the post-apocalyptic desert.
- 70Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonFor a while, Fury Road’s complete disinterest in screenwriting fundamentals feels liberating, as the director keeps upping the ante on this desperate chase through the desert. But what feels liberating at first can become monotonous, and Fury Road starts to drag once the frenetic sameness of Miller’s strategy takes hold.