Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Max helps Furiosa on her quest for redemption.
Genre
Post-Apocalyptic, Environmental
Characters/Groups
Imperator Furiosa - Charlize Theron
Immortan Joe - Hugh Keays-Byrne
Toast the Knowing - Zoe Kravitz
The Splendid Angharad - Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Cheedo The Fragile - Courtney Eaton
The People Eater - John Howard
The Bullet Farmer - Richard Carter
The Organic Mechanic - Angus Sampson
The Vuvalini
Keeper of the Seeds - Melissa Jaffer
Vuvalini - Melita Jurisic, Gillian Jones, Joy Smithers, Antoinette Kellerman, and Christina Koch
Corpus Colossus - Quentin Kenihan
Glory The Child - Coco Jack Gillies
The Rock Rider Chief - Steve Dunlevy
The Prime Imperator - Richard Norton
Imperator - Vince Roxburgh and John Walton
Chanting War Boy - Ben Smith-Petersen
Blood 'Shed' War Boy - Russ McCarroll
Milking Mother - Elizabeth Cunico
Ripsaw Imperator - Greg Van Borssum
Red Flare Warrior - Ben Smith-Petersen
Polecat Lookout - Sebastian Dickins
The Breakman - Greg Van Borssum
The Accusing Dead - Crusoe Kurddal and Shyan Tonga
The Wretched - Cass Comerford and Albert Lee
War Pups - Riley Patton, Ripley Voeten, Maycn Van Borssum, Hunter Stratton Boland, Nathan Jenkins, Fletcher Gill, and Whiley Toll
Drummers - Ferdinand Hengombe, Gadaffi Davsab, Noddy Alfred, Jackson Hengombe, Christian Fane, Callum Gallagher, and Abel Hofflin
Character thumbnails with links to profiles
Detailed Synopsis
Max Rockatansky narrates that his world is fire and blood. Newscasters report on the oil wars which eventually lead to the water wars. Max then goes on to tell of his past as a cop searching for a righteous cause and how as the world fell everyone in their own way became broken.
Max is on a cliff next to his vehicle looking towards the vast desert when he starts hearing The Many Voices. He hears a noise and quickly drives away in his vehicle and a group of War Boys give chase. They overtake Max and Max eventually crashes his vehicle. As he is crawling out of his vehicle he has a vision of Glory The Child dying. Max narrates that he is reduced to a single instinct, survive. Max is brought to The Citadel where he is cleaned up and tattooed by The Organic Mechanic who tattoos Max's blood type on Max's back. As Max is about to be branded, he manages to get away. As he is attempting to escape he has visions of Glory The Child blaming him for her death. He also has visions of The Accusing Dead who blame him for their deaths. Max tries to escape by using a large hanging chain, but is eventually captured.
Imperator Furiosa walks towards the War Rig as Immortan Joe is getting prepared for his speech. Chanting War Boy loudly chants a War Boy chant to the War Boys preparing the War Rig. The Ace tells the War Boys that they are heading to Gastown. The Wretched gather under Immortan Joe's cliff tower as the War Boys chant Immortan Joe's name. Immortan Joe is helped to the opening of the cliff by Rictus Erectus, The Prime Imperator and an Imperator while Corpus Colossus looks on. The Prime Imperator tells The Wretched to yell and make noise for Immortan Joe. Immortan Joe tells the crowd that once again they send out his War Rig to return with gasoline and bullets. He then salutes Furiosa and his War Boys. He calls himself their redeemer and then releases water from three large pipes which pours down towards The Wretched who gather to collect it. The War Rig and convoy drive away and The Breakman raises the main platform while The Winchman knocks members of The Wretched who try to climb onto the platform. The Organic Mechanic tells a War Boy to connect an IV tube to Max in order to transfer his blood to Nux. As Furiosa is driving towards Gastown, she suddenly changes course.
The Ace asks Furiosa where they are heading to, and she tells him that they are heading east. Morsov asks The Ace what is going on and The Ace tells him they are heading east, but he doesn't know why. Milking Mother is having her milk extracted when Immortan Joe hands Rictus a bottle of human breast milk and Rictus takes a drink. Corpus calls to Immortan Joe and tells him that Furiosa has changed course. Immortan Joe runs to the vault where he keeps his wives and finds it empty with "our babies will not be warlords" written on the ground. Miss Giddy points a shotgun at Immortan Joe and tells him that the wives are not his property. Immortan Joe grabs the shotgun from Miss Giddy and then demands to know where Furiosa is taking his wives. Nux hears as the Drummers start banging on their drums. Nux asks Slit what is going on but Slit walks on by. Blood 'Shed' War Boy tells Nux that Furiosa has gone rogue and betrayed Immortan Joe by stealing his wives. Slit grabs the steering wheel to Nux's vehicle and Nux and Slit start fighting over who gets to drive. The Organic Mechanic tells Nux he is too sick and is already a corpse, but Nux says he will bring Max (who now has a metal muzzle on his face) along with him to continue to drain blood from him. Nux headbutts Slit and says that if he is going to die, he is going to die historic on the Fury Road.
The convoy to recover the wives begins its chase of Furiosa as the Drummers and The Doof Warrior play music. Max is chained to Nux and placed in the front of Nux’s vehicle. Nux is excited when he calls out to Immortan Joe and Immortan Joe looks in his direction. The War Rig War Boys notice flares being fired behind them asking for reinforcements from Gastown and The Bullet Farm and The Ace asks Furiosa again what the mission is, and she tells him that it is a detour. Furiosa's convoy is spotted by Buzzards who wonder what she is doing in their territory. Furiosa spots the Buzzards driving towards her and warns The Ace, who warns the other War Boys. The first vehicle in the convoy falls into a trap and crashes. The Buzzards start attacking the convoy and a Buzzard rig with an excavator bucket starts to chase Furiosa and the convoy. Nux catches up with Furiosa and Slit and Morsov help attack a Buzzard vehicle. The rider of the Buzzard vehicle shoots bolts into Morsov who then sprays himself with chrome spray paint, is witnessed by The Ace, War Rig War Boy and the other War Boys and leaps towards the Buzzard vehicle with two explosive lances causing the vehicle to explode. During the battle The Splendid Angharad tells Furiosa that they can't breathe in their hiding place and Furiosa tells her to get back to the hiding place. War Rig War Boy jumps onto the boom of the Buzzard vehicle with the excavator bucket and he and Slit help destroy the vehicle, but War Rig War Boy is in turn killed when the machine crashes.
Furiosa drives towards a large sandstorm as The Ace and the surviving War Boys including Chanting War Boy look at the incoming storm. The Ace figures out that Furiosa has done something to betray Immortan Joe and attacks her. Furiosa knocks The Ace away from her and then rams Nux's vehicle causing one of its tires to blow. Furiosa drives into the sandstorm and her convoy follows her, causing them all to die. Max knocks Slit off of the vehicle and Nux follows Furiosa into the sandstorm. Max watches as Nux opens the fuel lines in preparation to ram the vehicle into the War Rig and manages to grab a flare from Nux before the vehicle is rammed by Furiosa and Nux's vehicle crashes. Max wakes up and finds himself still chained to an unconscious Nux. He grabs a shotgun and attempts to blow off Nux's arm, but the shell hang-fires. Max then starts to chew on Nux's finger, but hears Immortan Joe's convoy and grabs Nux. He carries Nux to where Furiosa is cleaning the sand from the War Rig and sees Angharad, Toast the Knowing, Capable, The Dag, and Cheedo The Fragile washing themselves. He tells Angharad to bring him the water hose which he then drinks from and tells The Dag to bring him the bolt cutters. The Dag walks over to Max carrying the bolt cutters and sees Immortan Joe’s forces driving towards them. She struggles to cut the chain and while Max is distracted, Furiosa charges at him and they begin to fight. While they are fighting the wives help Furiosa while Nux helps Max. In the end, Max manages to get a hold of a pistol Furiosa had hidden on the War Rig and threatens Furiosa with it. Nux tells Max that Immortan Joe is going to be grateful to him for bringing back his wives and Max tells him to cut the chains chaining them together. Nux says that he is going to ask Immortan Joe to drive the War Rig and Max takes his jacket back from Nux. Angharad says that they are going to the Green Place and starts walking towards the War Rig and Max punches Nux in the gut and then shoots towards Angharad and nicks her leg with a round. He gets into the War Rig and starts to drive off.
Furiosa tells the wives to pick up anything they can and follow her as they run after the War Rig. As Max is driving the War Rig it starts to stall. Furiosa runs up to Max and tells him that she installed kill switches inside the War Rig. He tells her that she can come, but only her and when Furiosa says that her and the wives go together, he threatens to wait for Immortan Joe. She tries to reason with Max and manages to convince him when she offers to help him remove the metal muzzle from his face. As they are driving away, Nux manages to jump onto the War Rig. Max collects the rest of the weapons Furiosa had hidden and as Furiosa starts to drive towards a cliff opening, Max tells her to drive around, but Furiosa points out that The People Eater and his Gas Town War Boys are heading their way from another direction. Angharad and Capable use binoculars and a spyglass and see that The People Eater’s forces consist of big rigs, polecats and flamers. The vehicle starts to stutter and Furiosa says the fuel pod may be causing it to drag and Max goes to investigate. As Max is reconnecting the fuel pod line to the War Rig, Nux is sneaking under the War Rig towards the semi-truck. As Max is walking back towards the semi cab, he finally manages to file through the metal muzzle. Nux uses the secret compartment to climb into the semi and starts to choke Furiosa with a chain, but the wives help Furiosa and Furiosa pulls out a stick shift knob dagger and puts it to Nux’s throat. Furiosa is about to kill Nux, but Angharad stops her. Max gets back to the cab and tells Furiosa that another group is following them and Furiosa says it is The Bullet Farmer and the Bullet Boys. The wives throw Nux out of the vehicle after telling him that he has been fooled by Immortan Joe.
Furiosa drives into a series of canyons and Furiosa tells Max and the wives that she made a deal for safe passage. She tells the wives to get back into the hold of the trailer and tells Max when she yells, then he is to drive the War Rig away and shows him how to disengage the kill switch. The War Rig comes to a stop and Furiosa gets out and yells out that she has the three thousand gallons of gasoline as promised. A group of Rock Riders and The Rock Rider Chief appear on a cliff and The Rock Rider Chief yells at Furiosa about the large war parties chasing after her. Immortan Joe and his war party start to enter the canyons and Furiosa yells out for Max to start driving. The Rock Riders start attacking the War Rig and detonate bombs that cause a large rockslide blocking Immortan Joe's war party. Furiosa climbs back into the War Rig while Immortan Joe follows after them and tells his war party to clear the rocks. An Imperator tells Immortan Joe that Nux says that he was on the War Rig and Immortan Joe tells Nux to climb aboard. Slit yells out that he has Max's boot but is ignored. The Rock Riders continue to attack the War Rig and use the landscape to their advantage. Furiosa hands a rifle to Angharad and tells her to reload it, but Angharad doesn't know how to, and Toast takes the rifle and reloads it. The Rock Rider Chief lands on the War Rig on his dirt bike and yells at Furiosa that they had a deal and starts to shoot at Furiosa, but Max shoots him dead. A Rock Rider with a large bundle of dynamite is shot and the dynamite rolls under the War Rig and detonates, causing the fuel pod to detach and explode and the remaining Rock Riders stop chasing the War Rig.
Immortan Joe catches up with the War Rig and Angharad opens the door and leans out of the War Rig and Furiosa shoots at Immortan Joe, but the Imperator who found Nux leans in front of Immortan Joe and is shot in the back and falls off of Immortan Joe's vehicle. Nux tells Immortan Joe that he can get inside the War Rig and kill Furiosa and Immortan Joe sprays Nux's face with chrome spray paint and tells Nux that he is awaited in Valhalla. Rictus throws Nux onto the War Rig, but as Nux is running, his chain catches on a part of the War Rig and he stumbles. Immortan Joe calls Nux's attempt mediocre and Max and Furiosa kill the remaining Imperator on Immortan Joe's vehicle. Rictus fires a harpoon at the War Rig which catches the steering wheel and pulls it away. Angharad uses bolt cutters to cut the chain attached to the harpoon but falls to the ground when she is trying to get back into the War Rig. Immortan Joe crashes his vehicle trying to avoid running Angharad over but fails. Capable yells at Max, who is remembering the death of Glory The Child, to turn around, but Max refuses. The War Rig breaks down and while Max and Furiosa are repairing it, Cheedo runs towards a pair of Immortan Joe's men on a motorcycle, but Furiosa shoots the two men dead. Max asks Furiosa where the Green Place is, and she tells him it is to the east. Capable goes to the back of the War Rig to be the lookout and finds Nux whimpering to himself. Nux tells Capable that he should be dining in Valhalla and shows her his tumors he calls Larry and Barry, which are slowly strangling him. Toast counts the remaining ammo and tells Max the count.
The War Rig gets stuck in the salt marshes as does Immortan Joe's war party. The Bullet Farmer in his ripsaw continues after Furiosa and the War Rig, while The Organic Mechanic cuts out the baby from Angharad, but tells Immortan Joe it has died, but was a perfect male specimen. The Bullet Farmer starts shooting into the dark and Ripsaw Imperator warns him about shooting one of the wives. Nux offers to help them and Max fires two of the remaining three bullets towards The Bullet Farmer but misses. Max lets Furiosa fire the last bullet, and she hits the spotlight on The Bullet Farmer's vehicle causing glass to fly into his eyes. Nux and Max tie the winch around a tree while Red Flare Warrior holds a flare in front of The Bullet Farmer's face and The Bullet Farmer realizes he is now blind. The Bullet Farmer starts shooting directly at the War Rig as Ripsaw Driver drives towards it and Nux manages to get the War Rig unstuck. Max tells Furiosa to keep moving and then heads to confront The Bullet Farmer. Furiosa and the others see a large explosion in the distance and Max returns with ammunition and a new steering wheel. They continue on and pass a group of Crow Fishers.
Furiosa tells Max about her past and being taken as a child from the Green Place and that she is looking for redemption. Toast notices a light in the distance and Furiosa looks through her binocular and sees something flashing in the distance. They drive to a rusty transmission line where a naked The Valkyrie is calling for help. Max realizes it is a trap, but Furiosa gets out of the War Rig and yells out who her and her mother were. The Valkyrie calls out to others and a group of Vuvalini ride their motorcycles towards them including the Keeper of the Seeds. The Valkyrie hugs Furiosa and the Vuvalini greet her. They ask what happened to Mary Jabassa and Furiosa tells them about Mary’s death. The wives get out of the War Rig and are greeted by the Vuvalini. Furiosa tells the Vuvalini that she is excited to see the Green Place and they tell her that the salt marsh area is what the Green Place became, and they are the last of the Many Mothers. Furiosa walks away to cry in anguish and during the night the wives and Vuvalini see a satellite cross the sky. The Dag tells the Keeper of the Seeds that she is pregnant, and the Keeper of the Seeds shows her the collection of seeds and plants she has. Furiosa tells Max of the plan to leave the War Rig, and ride motorcycles out through the desert and invites Max to join them, but he declines. The next day while Max is watching Furiosa, the Vuvalini and the wives leave across the desert, an image of Glory The Child appears to him and tells him that he promised to help her. Max rides and then overtakes Furiosa and stops in front of her. He shows her a map he made of the area and tells her that they should head back towards The Citadel and take it from Immortan Joe.
Polecat Lookout spots the War Rig driving back towards The Citadel and yells out. An Imperator tells Immortan Joe that it is indeed the War Rig and Immortan Joe realizes what Furiosa is planning on doing. Immortan Joe’s remaining war party get back into their vehicles and start chasing after the War Rig. Max’s stolen vehicle with Slit riding on the hood is the first to reach the War Rig and drops some spike strips. The Valkyrie shoots the driver of the Interceptor and then she and Maadi the Vuvalini the driver of the motorcycle fall back towards the back of the War Rig. The engines of the War Rig start to give out and Nux goes to try and repair them while Max and one of the Vuvalini try and decuple the trailer from the War Rig. The Valkyrie kills another driver, but Maadi is hit in the head and blinded and they crash their motorcycle. The Valkyrie and Maadi are then run over by The People Eater. A group of Bullet Boys fire harpoons that start to drag the War Rig and Max goes to the back of the War Rig with the bolt cutters while the Vuvalina stays behind to remove some bolts holding the trailer to the War Rig. A large War Boy truck drives next to the War Rig and fires a harpoon into the cab, and the Vuvalini removing the bolts shoots and kills the driver. She is then killed when part of the War Rig is pulled away when the War Boy truck crashes.
Max manages to cut all the harpoon chains, but the War Rig is then attacked by a group of polecats. A polecat drops a smoke grenade into the cab of the War Rig while another one attaches a snare pole around Furiosa's neck. The Keeper of the Seeds is attacked by Polecat Lookout and struck in the neck with his chainsaw. Furiosa then kills Polecat Lookout and then throws out the smoke grenade and removes the snare pole from her neck. Toast asks the Keeper of the Seeds if she is okay, and The Dag hands the Keeper of the Seeds her bag of seeds. Black Mask jumps onto the War Rig and attacks a Vuvalini. Black Mask then shoots a bolt at Max's forehead, but Max blocks it with his hand when an image of Glory The Child appears before him. A polecat grabs Toast and drops her into Immortan Joe's vehicle. Max manages to kill a few more polecats, but Furiosa is stabbed in the side by Black Mask. The Keeper of the seeds shoves a bullet through the eye of Black Mask and The Dag kicks Black Mask out of the cab. Nux repairs the engine and Slit who is driving Max's car tries to ram Max, who is hanging from the War Rig. Furiosa crushes Max's vehicle between the War Rig and The People Eater's vehicle and Max's vehicle explodes. Nux nudges Max onto The People Eater's vehicle and a Vuvalini shoots The People Eater's gunner in the head. Max removes The People Eater's driver and kicks The People Eater unconscious. Max drives The People Eater's vehicle across from Immortan Joe's and Immortan Joe fires at Max, hitting and killing The People Eater. Cheedo yells to Max that Furiosa is injured and Max jumps onto the War Rig as The People Eater's vehicle explodes.
A polecat grabs Max and pulls him away from the War Rig and the surviving Rock Riders see the explosion of The People Eater's vehicle in the distance. Max lands on The Doof Warrior and Drummers' vehicle. Furiosa and Immortan Joe ram their vehicles into each other and Furiosa tells Nux to drive while she goes to attack Immortan Joe. Cheedo calls out to Rictus to bring her into Immortan Joe's vehicle and Rictus transfers her to the vehicle and then grabs The Dag. A Vuvalini attacks Rictus but he punches her. Another Vuvalini charges at Rictus, but he grabs her and throws her off the War Rig. Max attacks Rictus and Cheedo helps Furiosa climb onto Immortan Joe's vehicle. Furiosa and The Prime Imperator fight and Nux rams Immortan Joe's vehicle, causing The Prime Imperator to fall out of the vehicle and get pulled under its wheels. Another Vuvalini shoots Rictus' oxygen tanks and Max beats Rictus with a loose tank. Furiosa sticks a harpoon into Immortan Joe's mask and then drops the rope between the vehicle's tires, causing half of Immortan Joe's face to rip off. Toast takes control of the vehicle and Cheedo yells to the remaining wives and Vuvalini in the War Rig that Immortan Joe is dead.
The wives and Vuvalini start making their way onto Immortan Joe's vehicle and The Dag take the bag of seeds from the dead Keeper of the Seeds. Nux tells Capable that he will follow her once he sees she is safely across. Rictus regains consciousness and lunges towards Capable, but Nux steps on the brake. Rictus then rips out the engine and yells at Nux, Nux stares at Capable, Cheedo, and a Vuvalini and asks them to witness him and then crashes the War Rig. A large pile up ensues which blocks the exit out of the canyon. Furiosa's condition worsens, and she whispers to Max to get her home. She starts to lose consciousness, and Max gives her some of his blood and tells her his name. They arrive at The Citadel and War Pups start beating their drums. The Winchman has the main platform lowered some but then tells The Breakman to brake. The Winchman orders Max to reveal himself and Max gets out of the vehicle and pulls back a sheet revealing the body of Immortan Joe. Max dumps the corpse from the vehicle and The Wretched runs towards the corpse and start stripping the body. Max helps Furiosa out of the vehicle and The Wretched start chanting to let Furiosa and the others up. A group of War Pups then start lowering the main platform and when it touches the ground, one of the two surviving Vuvalini drives the vehicle onto the main platform and The Breakman raises the platform. The Milking Mothers release some water to The Wretched and Furiosa looks on as Max blends into the crowd and walks away.