15 Most Over-Rated Movies Of The 21st Century

15. Mad Max: Fury Road

George Miller’s long-awaited Mad Max comeback hit screens last year to rapturous praise, widely affirmed as the one of the greatest action movies of all time and praised for its exhilarating visuals and underlying messages of female empowerment.

But broodingly beautiful, barren wastelands and post-apocalyptic steampunk aesthetics aside, for a film that’s hailed as elevating the action genre to new heights, it doesn’t deviate too far from standard action fare, seemingly favouring its stunning visuals over substantial characters and plot.

And while it’s true that Fury Road does have some feminist undertones in its focus on Charlize Theron’s Furiosa rather than Mad Max (which hilariously irked many a men’s rights activist) and it’s far more progressive than many films out there, it’s hardly the cinematic equivalent of Emily Davison throwing herself into the path of a speeding horse in the name of female suffrage.