Mad Max: Fury Road

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) leads the despot's five wives in a daring escape, she forges an alliance with Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy), a loner and former captive. Fortified in the massive, armored truck the War Rig, they try to outrun the ruthless warlord and his henchmen in a deadly high-speed chase through the Wasteland.

Initial release: May 13, 2015 (Belgium)

Director: George Miller

Box office: 378.4 million USD

Film series: Mad Max

Awards: Academy Award for Best Costume Design, more

Following a nuclear holocaust, the world has become a desert wasteland and civilization has collapsed. Max Rockatansky, a survivor, is captured by the War Boys, the army of the tyrannical Immortan Joe, and taken to Joe's Citadel. Designated a universal blood donor, Max is imprisoned and used as a "blood bag" for a sick War Boy called Nux. Meanwhile, Imperator Furiosa, one of Joe's lieutenants, is sent in her armoured semi-truck, the "War Rig", to collect gasoline. When she drives off-route, Joe realizes that his five wives women selected for breeding are missing. Joe leads his entire army in pursuit of Furiosa, calling on the aid of nearby Gas Town and the Bullet Farm.

Nux joins the pursuit with Max strapped to his car to continue supplying blood. A battle ensues between the War Rig and Joe's forces. Furiosa drives into a sand storm, evading her pursuers, except Nux, who attempts to sacrifice himself to destroy the Rig. Max escapes and restrains Nux, but the car is destroyed. After the storm, Max sees Furiosa repairing the Rig, accompanied by the Wives: Capable, Cheedo, Toast, the Dag and the Splendid Angharad, who is heavily pregnant with Joe's child. Max steals the Rig, but its kill switch disables it. Max reluctantly agrees to let Furiosa and the Wives accompany him; Nux, left behind, is picked up by Joe's army.

Furiosa drives through a biker gang-controlled canyon to barter a deal for safe passage; however, with Joe's forces pursuing, the gang turns on her, forcing her and the group to flee while the bikers detonate the canyon walls to block Joe. Max and Furiosa fight pursuing bikers as Joe's car, with Nux now on board, surmounts the blockade and eventually attacks the War Rig, allowing Nux to board. However, as the Rig escapes, Angharad falls off in an attempt to protect Max and is run over by Joe's car, killing her and her child.

Furiosa explains to Max that they are escaping to the "Green Place", an idyllic land she remembers from her childhood. Capable finds Nux hiding in the Rig, distraught over his failure, and consoles him. That night, the Rig gets stuck in mud. Furiosa and Max slow Joe's forces with mines, but Joe's ally, the Bullet Farmer, continues pursuing them. Nux helps Max free the Rig while Furiosa shoots and blinds the Bullet Farmer. Max walks into the dark to confront the Bullet Farmer and his men, returning with guns and ammunition.

They drive the War Rig overnight through swampland and desert, coming across a naked woman the next day. Max suspects a trap, but Furiosa approaches the woman and states her history and clan affiliation. The naked woman summons her clan, the Vuvalini, who recognize Furiosa as one of their own who was kidnapped as a child. Furiosa is devastated to learn that the swampland they passed was indeed the Green Place, now uninhabitable. The group then plans to ride motorbikes across immense salt flats in the hope of finding a new home. Max chooses to stay behind, but after seeing visions of a child he failed to save, he convinces them to return to the undefended Citadel, which has ample water and greenery that Joe keeps for himself, and trap Joe and his army in the bikers' canyon.

The group heads back to the Citadel, but they are attacked en route by Joe's forces, and Furiosa is seriously wounded. Joe positions his car in front of the War Rig to slow it, while Max fights Joe's giant son, Rictus Erectus. Joe captures Toast who manages to distract him long enough for Furiosa to kill him. Nux sacrifices himself by wrecking the Rig, killing Rictus and blocking the canyon, allowing Max, Furiosa, the wives, and the surviving Vuvalini to escape successfully in Joe's car, where Max transfuses his blood to Furiosa to help her survive her injuries.

Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky

Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa

Nicholas Hoult as Nux

Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe

Josh Helman as Slit

Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus

Zoë Kravitz as Toast the Knowing

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as The Splendid Angharad

Riley Keough as Capable

Abbey Lee as The Dag

Courtney Eaton as Cheedo the Fragile

John Howard as The People Eater

Richard Carter as The Bullet Farmer

Angus Sampson as The Organic Mechanic

Megan Gale as The Valkyrie

Melissa Jaffer as Keeper of the Seeds

Melita Jurisic, Gillian Jones, Joy Smithers, Antoinette Kellerman, 

and Christina Koch as The Vuvalini

Quentin Kenihan as Corpus Colossus

Jon Iles as The Ace

Mad Max: Fury Road contains 2,000 visual effects shots. The lead effects company was Iloura, who delivered more than 1,500 effects shots for the film. Additional visual effects studios that worked on the film include Method Studios, Stereo D, 4DMax, BlackGinger, The Third Floor, and Dr. D Studios. Miller recruited his wife, Margaret Sixel, to edit the film, as he felt she could make it stand out from other action films. Sixel had 480 hours of footage to edit; watching it took three months.The film contains about 2,700 cuts of its entire running length, which is equivalent to 22.5 cuts per minute compared to The Road Warrior's 1,200 cuts of its 90-minute running time equivalent to 13.33 cuts per minute. The frame rate was also manipulated. "Something like 50 or 60 percent of the film is not running at 24 frames a second, which is the traditional frame rate," said Seale. "It'll be running below 24 frames because George, if he couldn't understand what was happening in the shot, he slowed it down until you could. Or if it was too well understood, he'd shorten it or he'd speed it up back towards 24. His manipulation of every shot in that movie is intense."The Washington Post would later note that the changing frame rate gave the film an "almost cartoonishly jerky" look.

The particular substantial outcomes perform integrated modifying lights and also period, weather conditions outcomes, surfaces substitute and also menu structure. Night time displays have been filmed inside vivid sunlight, purposely overexposed and also colour-manipulated. In lots of photos, the particular heavens has been digitally swapped out with an increase of in depth or perhaps intriguing air. Charlize Theron donned any environmentally friendly protect above the girl still left provide to help outcomes performers inside digitally eliminating the girl provide coming from the girl displays. BAFTA-winning halloween costume artist Jenny Beavan mentioned "As significantly as i realize, the sole VFX about our own halloween costume has been the particular environmentally friendly handwear cover Charlize donned to hide the girl provide and so they furthermore got out there wire connections from your harnesses. Normally, each halloween costume will be just what it really is. It’s halloween costume. It’s their particular garments. It’s merely created for genuine! Also sure and also a number of the accessories – the particular wretched – we were holding increased. Limited to the particular extensive photos. inches

Appear artist Indicate Mangini explained which he looked at the particular Conflict Rig as a possible allegory regarding Moby-Dick together with Immortan Later on enjoying the particular function regarding Captain Ahab. Therefore, the particular physical vehicle appears have been layered together with whale telephone calls to offer an even more animal-like top quality for the vehicle. If the fish tank will be pierced together with harpoons and also dairy sprays out there, the particular appear regarding whale blow-holes have been employed. For your ultimate devastation with the Conflict Rig, the sole appears employed have been slowed down carry growls to be able to symbolise the particular dying with the vehicle being a dwelling monster.

Equally any PG-13 and also R-rated model was demonstrated independently in numerous analyze screenings. The particular R-rated model has been far better acquired simply by analyze people, major Warner Bros to produce that.

Crazy Utmost: Fury Path acquired popular essential acclaim. Evaluate aggregator internet site Decaying Tomato vegetables provides motion picture any 97% acceptance ranking and also ranking common report regarding 8. 6 away from 10 according to 354 critiques. The particular web site's comprehensive agreement says, "With thrilling actions plus a unexpected level of plot heft, Crazy Utmost: Fury Path delivers George Miller's post-apocalyptic operation roaring strenuously returning to living. inches About Meta critic, which usually assigns any normalized ranking, the particular motion picture features a report regarding ninety days away from 100 according to 1951 critics, suggesting "universal acclaim". Cinema Score polls noted the common level movie theatre people provided the particular motion picture has been any "B+" by using an A+ to be able to Fahrenheit level. Several critics have got known as Crazy Utmost: Fury Path one of the best actions motion pictures ever made.

Robbie Collin with the Everyday Telegraph provided the particular motion picture the full several celebrities and also lauded the particular motion picture for the performing, movie script, choreography, stunts, wit, and also course contacting the particular motion picture any "spiritual sequel" and also a great "eruption regarding craziness. inches Creating for your Mother or father and also awarding the particular motion picture several celebrities away from several, Philip Bradshaw published, "Extravagantly deranged, ear-splittingly cacophonous, and also totally extraordinary, George Callier provides enhanced his / her Crazy Utmost punk-western operation being a strange convoy pursue action-thriller inside the post-apocalyptic wasteland. inches The newest York Instances published, "Miller provides reminded us all in which blockbusters hold the prospective never to simply become fine art, yet drastically visionary – also the particular next in the collection. That of a wonderful evening, without a doubt. "Scott Mendelson regarding Forbes provided the particular motion picture 10 away from 10 celebrities and also published, "Mad Utmost: Fury Path can be a impressive and also marvelous film, not necessarily one among the fantastic actions motion pictures individuals moment but in addition a fantastic and also regular motion picture, period of time. inches Alonso Duralde regarding TheWrap published, "In the identical approach the authentic 1979 Crazy Utmost has been the particular Person Kane regarding gut-bucket Foreign exploitation movie theatre, Crazy Utmost: Fury Path could well be the particular Götterdämmerung regarding drive-in motion pictures. It's got the beginnings inside the American as well as the post-apocalyptic road-rage actions fable, in which Callier dares someone else to check out inside his / her exhaust treads. inches IGN reviewer Scott Collura provided the particular motion picture 9. a couple of away from 10, declaring: "The over-the-top stunts and also peculiar heroes and also models are typical very crucial that you Fury Path, yet oahu is the overriding perception with the film's appearance, the determined being one thing greater than merely another actions motion picture, which is many remarkable. inches

The particular motion picture in addition has recently been lauded simply by feminist critics about many fronts, like the prominent function obtained simply by Furiosa as well as the array of atypical feminine tasks like the spouse as well as the gun-toting Vuvalini.