Feels Like An Action-Only Sequel More Than A Reboot

Rating: 1/10 (18 May 2015)

This movie felt like it was a sequel to a first film starring Tom Hardy that initially set up the character and the world he survives in, other than quick narration and flashbacks. Thus the bombardment of non-stop action would make more sense in a sequel than a reboot of a franchise from a really long time ago, that some people half-remember and others don't know of at all.
And Charlize Theron would be the one character brought into the sequel to make it different from the original where Hardy was the main character. Thus, FURY ROAD felt like a cannonball flying without the fuse ever being lit. Playing out like a sequel of itself more than a reboot of something else.
Original franchise director George Miller took this rebooted world seriously, a video game meshed into a melodramatic graphic novel where anything goes, so therefore, audiences got into the sheer craziness and epic style road rage. There just wasn't anything behind all the noise but more and more noise.