20 Post-Apocalyptic Movies You Must See Before You Die

2. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

It's strange to think that there was once a time when everybody thought that Mad Max: Fury Road was going to be terrible; a stain on the legacy of the franchise, unnecessary and cynical in all the ways that most modern Hollywood reboots are. And yet George Miller's fourth foray into the Mad Max series stands as the best of the bunch, and is without a doubt one of the most visually stunning and relentlessly entertaining post-apocalyptic motion pictures ever committed to the screen. Set an unknown number of years after society has collapsed, the survivors of Fury Road are condemned to a sweltering existence in an uncompromising desert terrain, where petroleum and water are deemed as the most precious entities. Miller's film, which essentially stands as one long chase through the desert (and back again), is an action masterpiece, but it's also a film ripe with brilliant details, feminist themes, and a true sense of its apocalyptic universe.