Tom Hardy’s Highest-Rated Action Movie on Rotten Tomatoes Is Leaving Netflix — Watch It Before It’s Gone
Tom Hardy’s best-rated action movie on Rotten Tomatoes is about to roar off Netflix: Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller’s high-octane return to the wasteland with Charlize Theron. Queue it up before it speeds away.
Quick heads up: 'Mad Max: Fury Road' is about to peel out of Netflix. If you have been meaning to revisit George Miller's sandblasted fever dream, you have a short window before it vanishes.
When it leaves
'Fury Road' leaves Netflix on January 1, 2026. It is not alone, either. A handful of other big titles hit the road that same day:
- 'Blue Beetle'
- '8 Mile'
- 'Aquaman & The Lost Kingdom'
- '47 Ronin'
- 'Doctor Sleep'
- 'Crazy Rich Asians'
Why 'Fury Road' still hits like a truck
Fourth in the 'Mad Max' series, 'Fury Road' is Miller back in full command. He directed and co-wrote it with Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris; Miller also directed the first two 'Mad Max' films and co-directed the third with George Ogilvie. The movie is set in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland and basically never touches the brakes.
Tom Hardy takes his first and so far only swing at 'Mad' Max Rockatansky, stepping into the role Mel Gibson originated. Charlize Theron is a force as Imperator Furiosa, with Nicholas Hoult as Nux, Hugh Keays-Byrne as Immortan Joe, Josh Helman as Slit, Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus, and Zoe Kravitz as Toast the Knowing.
Critics went wild: it sits at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes from 439 reviews, and it pulled strong numbers worldwide at the box office. It is one of the 21st century's most celebrated action films for a reason.
The Max of it all
If you like odd franchise footnotes: Hardy has been the only on-screen Max in this era, but the 2024 prequel 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' briefly used Jacob Tomuri in the role, and the 2015 'Mad Max' video game had Bren Foster voicing the character. Different roads to the same mythic drifter.
Still want a blast of action on Netflix?
Even after 'Fury Road' exits, Netflix will still have some comfort-food brawlers, including 'Conan the Destroyer' and 'Man on Fire'. Not the same flavor, but they will do in a pinch.
What happens next
'Furiosa' did not light up the box office the way 'Fury Road' did, but earlier this year Miller said he still wants to make a follow-up to 'Fury Road' (via Vulture). So yes, there is gas in the tank — it is just a question of when and how.