Chart Position: 19th Worldwide Gross: $375,836,354 Just clinging onto the top 20, Mad Max: Fury Road, the years most acclaimed, unalloyed piece of action cinema, serves as yet another example of a successful, late-franchise reboot. Starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, George Millers gorgeous, pure film is a feat in old-school action filmmaking, largely eschewing CGI to deliver a film steeped in stunt work and choreography. Set against a stunning, arid backdrop, Mad Max has even been nominated for Best Picture at 2016s Academy Awards, and a win would be an unprecedented move in cinema history. Its true that the film might be slight in terms of narrative, and it probably couldve been cut by ten minutes or so, but nevertheless, this is one of the finest blockbusters of the decade, a return to a time when filmmakers had a vision and where then allowed to go forth and see it come to life. And come to life Fury Road does, in an array of visuals and set-pieces which actively go against the grain to provide an antithesis to the pristine, digital action were now all so damn used to seeing.
