So... Fury Road... Boy am I going to seem like a wet blanket. Didn’t think much of it.
Last time I checked, a good movie develops the characters so you care about them and what happens to them. Not in this movie. Introduce Max quickly. Put him in chains and a mask (shades of Bane) for the first half hour. Then begin the bloody chase. And Tom Hardy does not have the same star charisma Gibson had. Or at least he didn’t get to show it in this movie.
Yes, there were some brief flashbacks to Max’s wife and daughter. And by brief I mean three seconds. Were we just suppose to accept this is the same Max from Mad Max, Road Warrior and Thunder Dome? Sorry, that Max was charming and funny at times. This Max, who knows? The women in the tanker were annoying despite their washing down introduction. And, hey, I like women in wet see through clothing as much as the next guy. The bad guys went from being over the top to absolutely ridiculous and not in a good way. The dude with the flame thrower guitar? Come on.
And they did something I really don’t like in movies. They travel half way across a wasteland then decide to turn around and back. And when they go back they just walk in and take over the place??? Lame.
The action scenes were exciting but because I didn’t care about the characters they really didn’t matter. There were some visually beautiful moments. I’ll give the movie that.
I just couldn’t get past some of the absolute stupidity of the story. The blood transfusion near the end. Anyone ever hear of something called blood type? Here, let me fill ya’ up. And before anyone mentions Universal Blood Type Donor...
http://www.redcrossblood.org/learn-abou ... lood-types
Maybe the writers should have Googled it.
Two out of five stars.