Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Apertura annunciata e poi negata del 68. Festival di Cannes, il quarto Mad Max, firmato da George Miller – a trent’anni di distanza dall’ultimo – e’ un esplosione di corpi e macchine, come raramente si e’ visto in passato.
- Marina Antunes @ Quiet Earth
- [New – 1/28/16] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: George Miller riza el rizo con su regreso a la carretera infinita. Una propuesta demente y sorprendentemente libre, que consigue configurar un doloroso cosmos perfectamente sólido, estructurado y dispuesto para darnos muchas alegrías. Brutal.
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: Socio-political ramifications aside, ‘Fury Road’ is, plain and simple, a bracing, sublime, towering slab of cinema, a rare thriller that actually, y’know, thrills.
- Chris Barsanti @ PopMatters
- Excerpt: GEORGE MILLER’S MAGNIFICENTLY CRAZED HALF-SEQUEL, HALF-DO-OVER REIMAGINES THE ORIGINAL POST-APOCALYPTIC ACTION SAGA AS AN EVEN MORE SAVAGE, BUT YET STRANGELY THOUGHTFUL, BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL IN THE WRECKAGE.
- William Bibbiani @ CraveOnline
- Excerpt: The kind of superlative action filmmaking that rips away at our collective acceptance of mediocrity.
- Matt Brown @ Twitch
- Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Robert Cashill @ Popdose
- Excerpt: The ultimate thrill ride.
- Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Ante la grandeza y el ritmo que propone George Miller sólo parecería ser justo ponerse de pie y aplaudir.
- Edgar Chaput @ Sound on Sight
- Erik Childress @ eFilmCritic
- Excerpt: Miller has crafted the kind of visionary action epic that makes peers and contemporaries envious while holding audiences in rapture waiting for that first bit of silence when they can finally relinquish their breath.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: *This* is how you reboot a franchise. But as good an apocalyptic actioner as “Mad Max: Fury Road” is, “The Road Warrior” is still the gold standard.
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: Gonzo doesn’t even begin to describe MAD MAX: FURY ROAD.
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- M. Enois Duarte @ High-Def Digest.com
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Mad Max: Fury Road is a bold, ingenious thrill machine.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Hugo Gomes @ Cinematograficamente Falando … [Portuguese]
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Assaulting and intense, delivering an outrageously relentless adrenaline rush…
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- John Hanlon @ JohnHanlonReviews.com
- Excerpt: An unapologetic action film that shows how magnificent chase scenes can be when put in the hands of a gifted director and a cast that realizes that in a post-apocalyptic world, less really is more.
- Roderick Heath @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: What Fury Road does well is just about the only thing it does: stage fast-paced road action. Fury Road is a triumph of high-powered editing masquerading as awesome swashbuckling fun, but much of the soul of this creation has been left by the roadside like so many burnt-out spark plugs: it’s an almost complete dud on an emotional level — and this kind of filmmaking runs on emotion.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: It’s a testament to the visual and aural overload that it propels an adult like me into giddy exuberance. Mad Max: Fury Road is an all out pedal to the metal, full throttle chase with nothing held back.
- Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Astonishing. Achieves its grotesque, magnificent brutality in an old-fashioned way that serves as a smackdown to bloated, sterile CGI monstrosities.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Vehicular slaughter at its peak – an exceptional action thriller full of grotesque villains, astounding visuals, visionary cinematography and design, and just might be the most fun you will have in a theater all year
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: It’s official: “Mad Max: Fury Road” is the real deal of the summer season. “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” who?
- Greg Klymkiw @ The Film Corner
- Excerpt: I love the first two Mad Max films so much that I’m grateful to Miller for not abandoning the spirit of them and using his previous work as a natural springboard into both the familiar and the fresh. At 72-years-old, director George Miller manages to easily take several huge dumps of superiority upon every other younger director in recent years who’ve purported to direct action blockbusters.
- Oktay Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Donald Jay Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Excerpt: … a furious, insanely entertaining post-apocalyptic road picture … Miller, who just turned 70, puts on a clinic for aspiring action directors young enough to be his grandchildren.
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Excerpt: Finding new territory to mine in post-apocalyptic civilization has been a struggle for Hollywood in recent years. George Miller finally develops a new angle with his return to the universe of Mad Max after thirty years with “Mad Max: Fury Road.”
- Alan Mattli @ The Zurich English Student
- Excerpt: Fury Road’ is one of the most awe-inspiring, most audacious films of the year.
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Full of searing, scorch-your-eyebrows action, subtle, terrific performances, as well as more thought provoking beats than you expect, Mad Max: Fury Road proves that, for all their misfires, sometimes big movie studios get it right.
- Ross Miller @ Thoughts On Film
- Excerpt: A monumentally entertaining, utterly beguiling statement of blockbuster spectacle that once it gets going barely stops for breath.
- Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: You’d be Mad to miss it…
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: A film this crazy might have played even better six weeks from now in the brutal summer heat, but Fury Road is the loudest, wildest, most action-packed bonanza at the multiplex right now. It’s exhilarating escapism.
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Amazing! The Action Movie of The Year
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: The Road Warrior rides on in Mad Max: Fury Road, as a single action setpiece is stretched out over the course of a whirlwind two-hour movie. George Miller’s post-apocalyptic re-imagination of his Mad Max franchise, last seen with Mel Gibson 30 years ago in Beyond Thunderdome, is an assault on the senses so relentless that it seriously up the game on this year’s blockbuster hits like Furious 7 or Avengers: Age of Ultron.
- Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
- Marcio Sallem @ Em Cartaz [Portuguese]
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: As efficient an exercise in pure action and visceral excitement as today’s jaded audiences could ask for, though little more than that.
- Sarah Ward @ artsHub
- Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: Fury Road has declared itself the new action movie standard for the 21st century, and then dared anyone to call it a liar.
- Goerge Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd. [Greek]
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