A pretty freaking great action movie

Rating: 9/10 (23 May 2015)

I've been super excited for this since I saw the trailer. I was more excited about this than I was about Avengers: Age of Ultron. Did it live up expectations? Hell yeah it did! This movie is freaking awesome. It kicks all the ass. Is it the most thought provoking film ever? No. Does it have an amazingly original story line with super complex and deep characters? No. When you get down to it, it's a 2 hour chase scene. But that doesn't matter with this movie. It wanted to be fun and it achieved that. What sets this apart from other movies that try to be nothing more than "fun is the fact that it doesn't waste time on a story that doesn't matter anyway. Lets use the Transformers franchise as an example. Overall, pretty terrible franchise. Why? Well a lot of reasons, but the one I care about here is that each movie wastes time on pointless crap that doesn't matter. It's a Transformers movie, I want to see Transformers fight. I don't want to watch humans argue in a Transformers movie. Those movies can't be fun if they keep wasting time on stupid stuff. Mad Max doesn't do that. It lays out the basics, so it makes some amount of sense, then they get straight to the action and it doesn't really stop. We get two glorious hours of exceptionally directed action scenes with no crap in between. This really is one of the better action movies I've seen in recent years and I really hope they make more. Go see it.