Reboot or poor continuation of the series, neither seems to be properly addressed

Rating: 6/10 (10 August 2015)

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Hollywood seems to have this fascination with rebooting or extending the longevity of a film franchise, because well there's money to be made and they are out of fresh ideas.
This iteration of Mad Max nonchalantly delivers all of the bad tripe that Hollywood drums up, and doesn't do anything to give us a sense of that movie going experience that used to excite us as young adults or children.
It's redundant and uses a worn out formula that needs to be broken.
I rated it a 6(generous)and that was only because of the wonderful scenery and some awesome attention to detail with costumes and vehicles/props.
1. It's great that they avoided CGI where possible. Though when they did use it, it was noticeable and rather amateurish looking. And it's not enough to carry the film.
You have to consider, if the main praise of a film is that 'it used real props,' then clearly the film wasn't that good.
2. Characters are uninteresting, unrelatable and entirely one dimensional. Max..totally uninspiring. Mel Gibson's Max was a badass, a man of honor in a world gone mad and a survivor. Tom Hardy's Max is just an invalid. Max himself is not only a mute for 3/4s of the film, he's also feeble - which seems to be a trait of Tom Hardy more than the character. It certainly wasn't the confident Max we were accustomed to.
3. Story was boring - if I wanted to watch a bunch of dimwitted women escaping into a fantasy land(whether real or mental), I'd just watch an episode of Orange is the New Black. That's all I need to get my nauseating fill of ridiculous femme monologues. And even if we buy that Max is a 'survivor' I don't call what he did really surviving. He just played wheel man for a bunch of idiotic mares.
4. Plot is amateur. Plot twists are obvious. Moments where bad guy is deterred or detoured by some character that I care nothing for, is obvious - such as the Splendid Angharad opening the door to block Immorten Joe from shooting Furiousa - like right at the perfect moment, exposing her belly and child with a smug grin on her face as if daring him to shoot her. Really? Who wrote this horesh*t?
5. Film starts out with one of the two regurgitated film openings with movies these days. Either you get a five minute 'this is what happened flashbacks, and now let's start the movie' or you get 'central protagonist/antagonist reflecting on life choices and some sort of mental/emotional anguish that drives or haunts their days.' In this film, it's the latter with the huge cop out that Max 'failed' some children and hears their screams taunting him.
6. Timing of scenes and dialogue is rough, badly edited and makes you wonder why they even paid known actors to deliver a handful of lines that aren't even convincing any ways. Why not let some new actors do it and pay them 1/4 the wage?
7. Whole parts of the film are irrelevant and only server to waste time. The intro to the film is inconsequential. We get a half hearted half minute monologue and voice over about some nonsense and then a few back and forth scenes about a capture and escape.
Then the film seems to properly start where it should have, with the introduction of Immortan Joe. They could have led in at the point where he's having this weird armor strapped to him and then he walks out to the people below. It not only curiously introduces the main villain but also shows a small example of what the world is like, when he releases the water and people began fighting over it.
The only thing in this film that interested me, was when Splendid Angharad got run over. A film is bad when the only pleasure I got from it, was watching an innocent character get killed by a monster truck buggy's tire.
Just goes to show how utterly sh*t the film was.
Frankly, they should be ashamed they bothered to reboot the series; or whatever you want to call it. People that like this are the same sheep that think the recent string of comic book films are good entertainment.
I call it simply crap.