"It's rare for me – as a guy who's privileged enough to write about films regularly – to find myself at a loss for words after seeing a movie. Love it or hate it, I can usually jot down five hundred words and be done with it as soon as I can get to a laptop, but MAD MAX: FURY ROAD threw me for a loop. I knew I was going to like it. Heck, I knew I'd probably love it, but I truly did not expect to find myself so shook-up and maybe it's because I feel like I've just witnessed the birth of a full-on action classic. I feel like I did when I walked out of THE MATRIX in '99, or the way people probably did when they saw DIE HARD in theaters in 1988, or (appropriately) THE ROAD WARRIOR in 1982. Make no mistake, FURY ROAD is on par with those films and the closest to a modern action classic then I've seen in some time."