Something new in this movie

Rating: 8/10 (5 March 2016)

Full time action over nearly 2 hours. Usually I get bored after five minutes of action. Because in most movies, action is only for the sake of itself. Maybe, this is the first time that character building has been done through speed action. At least it is that the first time that it worked out. So, what went wrong, not getting an Oscar for best screenplay, best directing or best picture? For what I can say: There is not much talk in that movie, but to me, still too much. Talking injects a kind of civilization, that did not match the behavior of the lunatic tribes. Another problem: The action scenes are so complex and one scene transforming into the next. It must be nearly impossible to manage the overview during directing and editing. And you can see it - sometimes the scenes don't fit correctly on one time arrow. This irritates. Another criticism (which is not fair, because the movie is so great anyway) is the overblown happy end. Way too much collective salvation at the end! All in all: huge effort by George Miller taking all the risks and trying to make an impossible movie. Ah yes, and Mad Max is incredible entertaining. The stakes are high for the next Mad Max. At least for Tom Hardy it should be possible to do better. He is a great actor and made 5! great movies 2015. It would be nice, if Hardy can manage to get more into the character of Max next time.