10 Reasons Mad Max: Fury Road Is The Weirdest Blockbuster Ever

6. The Main Setpiece Is The Whole Movie

It seems like Miller took a look at modern blockbuster cinema prior to making Fury Road, only to drop the final film as a lesson to the current crop of blockbuster moviemakers. Miller has confessed to changing his own directorial style to fit in with the times - mostly that was in terms of shot length and modern effects techniques - but he's apparently altered his storytelling style for Fury Road, as well. Forgetting the slightly more plot-driven entries in the Mad Max franchise, Fury Road is a great example of plot-light contemporary action cinema. The film is essentially one two-hour-long action sequence, almost as though Miller looked at the state of the modern action movie and decided to make a gleeful borderline parody of it. The result is ravishing and absolutely exhilarating cinema, making no pretense at trying to built a heavy plot around the action that audiences seem to want. Instead, the action virtually is the plot.