The film is an awesome action flick and deft allegory of power.
READ MORE: The 10 (or 20) best movies of 2015, according to Mark Olsenĭirected and co-written by George Miller, the film manages to be many things at once, macho and feminist, sprawling and focused, brutal and tender. “Fury Road” is both a caricatured screed and nuanced depiction of chaos, camaraderie, violence, hatred, resolve and an ability to overcome fear through resilience and understanding. Which is why “Mad Max: Fury Road” seems more than any other movie this year to have tapped into a rare and electrifying current of heightened reality and why for me it is the top movie of the year. The future is coming, the movies seem to be saying - what happens now is up to all of us. Yet there was also, at the cinema at least, an underlying aspect of forgiveness, reconciliation, growth and most of all hope. The movies of 2015 often reflected that with ongoing imagery of a world in crisis. It’s difficult to look at the news recently and not feel some complicated layering of disheartened and disgusted or to think the world is genuinely spinning out of control on some accelerated course to who-knows-where.