More explosions than "action"

Rating: 6/10 (22 June 2015)

If what you're hearing about mad max fury road is that it is one big explosion filled car chase that's absolutely true. Which is okay. In a strange Michael bay fashion it's got some impressive moments, but the insanely high review scores will simply not stand the test of time. As a fan of the mad max series I don't believe the film insults or dilutes the mad max universe. I was most disappointed in the way it failed to capitalize on it. Such a perfect world to mold a story out of and bring to life in the way the video game industry has with the borderlands and fallout series over recent years. They fail making the universe interesting and deep and desperate. It never suspended my belief like a great movie should. This could've been any desert full of bandits. It seemed to be loosely inspired by, if not a flat out off brand version of a mad max movie.
Instead of a story in the realm of mad max they tryed to go with a balls out action movie, which once again is fine. But they wait an hour to try to add artificial drama. AN HOUR! Not that Theron acted her part poorly by any means. She doesn't have to prove herself at this point in her career. Clearly her few dramatic lines and "courageous intent" come wayyyyy too late in the movie to care. Almost as if somebody was like "wow, we need to add this ingredient to the Hollywood formula because that's what our investors demand" it's out of place and nearly makes you roll your eyes. It came of as so forced and phony it almost wrecked the entire thing for me.
Also I feel like cinematic direction and results didn't match. Much of the movie didn't have that flair that I felt it was nearly achieving. I guess the only example I could transfer to written word is during the dustnado-dust storm- scene. It looks as though they were going for the 300 type filter (which by the way had they pulled it off would've been perfect) but it kind of came out as a very budget version of that aesthetic. Also the white body paint didn't do any favors throughout the film. They didn't look like blockbuster cool body makeup. They just looked like normal people going to a football game.
My end game is they failed to really cement the viewer in the world. Forced some very unneeded drama. And honestly many of the action scenes never felt as intense as they should've been.either budget or ability ate into the final result. Hard to tell which.