Mad Maxine (also starring mumbling Max)

Rating: 5/10 (17 May 2015)

I thought long and hard before writing this review. I mean, the opinion of 99% of IMDb is against me, so everyone else must be right! right? Wrong!
So let's start with the obvious. The protagonist of the film is Furiosa, not Max, because women can be protagonists too. Okay.... let's tick that box...
So why call the movie Mad Max? Why not just set a random plot in a random dystopian future with strong female characters? OK, let's do it! No! wait! we can't! Because we're scared that the story can't stand alone on its own merits. We're scared to put out a stand-alone movie with no character continuity to the Mad Max films.
This film is a non-sequitur of a non-sequel assembled by the intellectually bankrupt purely to illustrate a misogynist, dystopian future where anything with a penis is to be held in contempt. But because it's by George Miller it must be a sequel to Mad Max?! Okay.... let's tick that box... (Did George Miller really create this - or did the studio just pay him to put his name to it?)
Plot summary: Mad Maxine (also starring mumbling Max). In the future, there are a lot of bad men. And they treat women as chattels and breeding stock.
Fortunately there is a woman. A woman who can drive a truck. And shoot better than mumbling Max. And can kick mumbling Max's ass (with one hand). Maxine's a bad-ass - you can tell by the metal arm (prosthetics are still available in the future.) Maxine comes from a mythical green place. To free other women from bondage. And bring them back to the mythical green place where the sacred seeds are kept. Maxine and her friends have promised each other never to kill on this, most special, of road-trips. (Wounding and maiming is acceptable, however.) Oh, and a couple of guys happen to help her out, and one of them is called Max, and he had to be in the plot because of the title... Okay.... let's tick that box...
What's a synonym for mad? Furious! Hah! hah! I get it! That's about the level of wit in this entire unfunny, monotonous, stinker of a film.
The explosions were good, though. Okay.... let's tick that box...