Mad Max was bat sh!t insane

Rating: 8/10 (27 May 2015)

The movie was inanity, madness, and chaos, but the directing and premise did not need to be. Having not watched or heard about Max like many of us, there was no basic sense of what was going on other then the sense that people were blowing each other up. Only did a few subtle frames or one line sentences hint at a possible premise, but it was so subtle that I was left confused throughout the action scenes. Mad Max's intro did not reveal who he was, or how he got there as it was only about 5 sentences revealing that the world was chaotic. Sure, I get it..but why was it chaotic? The post apocalyptic civilization and culture was little appreciated because the director failed to establish the premise of their existence. Hence, I could not appreciate the deeper philosophical introspection of the author's depictions of the end of the world. Only until after doing research did I get to understand the deep characters, but without the research I was left to wonder what exactly what I was watching. The rest was just madness.
And madness was the obvious motif of the movie. The world ends and this post apoc culture is unstable, insane, but for the most part fun to watch. Action sequence of trucks driving up rocks, getting stuck in mud, while a death metal guitar strapped to a flame thrower is blasting music through all the fight scenes. I just wish I was given more information about Max, and the end of the world culture that developed. The movie could have used a 20 minute synopsis of the past 3 movies, like in Superman.