10 Best Opening Scenes From Movie Sequels

10. Mad Max: Fury Road - A Captured Max

Few films have ever hit the ground running in quite the way George Miller's return to the desolate world of Mad Max did with Fury Road in 2015.

Preparing audiences for the non-stop action-packed thrill ride they were about to strapped to the front of, Miller kicks things off by having the titular Max captured by a bunch of pale white lads by the name of the War Boys.

After being dragged through the desert, Tom Hardy's leading character is soon shaved and tattooed by his ferocious captors in an undisclosed location. Giving into his primal instinct to survive, though, Max then breaks free from his restraints, leading the War Boys on a merry chase through the facility in a sequence which resembles the grungiest Benny Hill skit imaginable.

This all leads to the climactic realisation that Max is going absolutely nowhere, with the protagonist launching himself off the side of a ridiculously high ledge, in what is revealed to be Immortan Joe's citadel, onto a swinging hook, only to be dragged kicking and screaming back inside the intense structure.