Mad Max: Fury Road

In a post-apocalyptic desert where water and fuel are power, the warlord Immortan Joe rules from his fortress over a suffering population. When the commander Furiosa flees with Joe's wives to bring them to her homeland, Max Rockatansky—held captive and used as a blood donor—accidentally joins the high-speed chase across the wasteland. At age 70, George Miller directed the most visually innovative action film of the early twenty-first century.

Mad Max: Fury Road is probably the best pure action film of the last twenty years. Miller turned a two-hour chase into genre cinema at a level unseen since Buster Keaton. Charlize Theron as Furiosa: iconic.