Cue up Verdi's 'Requiem, Dies irae' and get ready for a crash course in Max. That means that if you haven't seen the original trio of movies-or maybe you just haven't seen them in three decades-you have some catching up to do. But George Miller, Max's creator, never stopped thinking about him, and now has a whole new set of adventures for this solitary warrior, the first of which (or rather, the fourth) is this weekend's Fury Road. A forever broken-hearted, noble man wandering in the desert was left to wander some more. His story felt like it had reached its logical conclusion.

He was facing down a villain in the form of Tina Turner and fighting for his life in the Thunderdome.

Back then, Mel Gibson was young, beautiful and not at all a pariah. That's right: The creator and writer/director of all three Max flicks is back to shepherd his hero into the new millennium.īut the last time we saw Max Rockatansky, it was 1985. Here's $100 million! But with Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller has awakened a slumbering action giant to give us everything we didn't know we needed from a summer blockbuster in 2015. They'll probably pay to see it since it feels familiar. Most of the time when franchises 'reboot' it feels like a studio gave up on trying and grabbed the closest idea that was available to option.