# Mad Max: Fury Road

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Mad Max: Fury Road and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as an entertaining action film with real stunts and few equals among recent action movies.

## Why people recommend it

- Entertaining, awesome action movie (2 comments): "one of the greatest, most awesome, movie ever made" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261792)) "Mad Max: Fury Road is an entertaining movie" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038095))
- Real stunts instead of CGI (1 comments): "so much of the stunts were real and not SpiderMan level nonsense" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705786))
- Rare standout among modern action films (1 comments): "Movies like Mad Max: Fury Road and Fall Guy are few and far between." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866929))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Mad Max (1979 film)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mad-max.md): 6 recommend
- [Marvel Cinematic Universe](https://hackerapproved.com/p/marvel-cinematic-universe.md): 6 recommend
- [The Dark Knight Blu-ray](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dark-knight.md): 6 recommend
- [The Good, the Bad and the Ugly](https://hackerapproved.com/p/good-the-bad-and-the-ugly.md): 5 recommend
- [Die Hard (1988)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/die-hard.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Mad Max: Fury Road", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mad-max-fury-road/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).