A Decade Later, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Shines as Chrome as Ever

The early 2010s had a number of blockbuster action movies that would either light the world on fire or come and go without immediate fanfare. In the former corner, you’ve got The Raid, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the original John Wick. And in the latter, there’s Pacific Rim and one Mad Max: Fury Road, a movie that still feels like revelation years later. Fury Road released May 15, 2015, and was the first Mad Max movie since Beyond Thunderdome back in 1985. Franchise creator George Miller tried making a fourth movie off and on throughout the decades, but the stars finally aligned at the top of the decade when Tom Hardy, soon to be the breakout of Christopher Nolan’s Inception, was revealed as the new Max. Mel Gibson played the wandering wastelander in the first three films, but the actor’s age and his controversies at the time led to a recast. And that was just one of several shakeups during a tumultuous years-long production. Miller’s original idea of “violent marauders ... Read full article.