20 Best Looking Movies Since 2000

When you think of beautiful looking films it's not very often action movies spring immediately to mind. While great action movies can bring an aesthetic sensibility to them which compliments the carnage (think of John Woo's show motion camerawork in films like Hard Boiled and The Killer) rarely are they considered works of art.

Mad Max: Fury Road broke the familiar action movie mold and then some, pairing the frenetically paced extended car chase with some of the most memorable imagery seen in decades. Director George Miller spent the best part of twenty years trying to get his vision to movie theatres and the effort clearly paid off. This is action at its most precise and calculated, every shot composed with a degree of care and attention equaling the efforts of the stunt team.

Mad Max: Fury Road was shot by John Seale, who achieved prominence with The English Patient, an entirely different movie in tone and feel to Mad Max but one which was set largely in the desert, giving him the experience needed to shoot the desert car chases in Fury Road.