Terrible movie

Rating: 1/10 (6 February 2016)

The bar is so low currently for movies that schlock like this gets an 8.2? Let's make a movie that has no characters we want to root for, no character build up and no story. Let's decorate the vehicles with skulls and scary stuff and also tattoo people with this stuff and have a guy who wears a scary oxygen mask. This will not make the movie frightening, but "oh well". Let's not explain why people are searching for a place with water, yet seem to be thriving and in good enough health to wage battles and have plenty of gasoline when they are out in the middle of a desert. This movie is just a bunch of violent vignettes of vehicles racing down roads and the occupants fighting each other. I was so bored, but because so many critics and web sites seem to rate it so highly, I stuck with it. I'll admit I fell asleep for part of it. There is no suspense whatsoever and the character Mad Max is lame. I just watched the first Mad Max with Mel Gibson and although it was a little choppy, it had heart and it was way more suspenseful and exciting than this one, especially considering how long ago it was made. I enjoyed that one. This one cannot compare. I plan on watching the second Mad Max movie with Mel which is rated even higher than the first one. I think the problem is that the person who wrote the screen plays for the first two Mad Max movies so many years ago, used stories written by other people and just translated the stories into screen plays. I believe he wrote the original story for this one and it stinks! Perhaps he's past his prime. I really don't understand the hype unless it's because of the stars or sentiment for the director/screen writer. In my opinion, Charlize took a big step down in her career with this. I love action and thrillers and post-apocalyptic movies that are well done. This is not. To be honest, the first and last halves of this movie were just the same old same old, so falling asleep really didn't matter. Nothing changed. This is one of the worst movies, I've seen this year.