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Mad Max: Fury Road Max: Fury Road" is a remarkable and glorious motion picture, not just one of the great action movies of our time but also a great and timely film, period." Alonso Duralde of "TheWrap" wrote, "In the same way that the original 1979 "Mad Max" was the "Citizen Kane" of gut-bucket Australian exploitation cinema, "Mad Max: Fury Road" may well be the "Götterdämmerung" of drive-in movies. It has its roots in the Western and the post-apocalyptic road-rage action saga [...], where Miller dares anyone else to follow in his tire treads." IGN reviewer Scott Collura gave the film 9.2 out of