Could have been a great movie

Rating: 3/10 (28 June 2015)

I enjoyed the old Mad Max movies with Mel Gibson so I looked forward to this new iteration. It had so much potential. Special effects are better these days and it had a good cast. That being said I went in with an open mind. There is a some good in this movie but there is so much bad that it is greatly disappointing. Ridiculous moments include: water is in short supply and precious yet when it is doled out by the local kingpin it is wasted with most pouring onto the ground; a rock guitarist in red long johns in the desert on the speaker filled truck; a nipple chained corpulent character; spray painting mouths to be "chrome bumper like" as an exit statement before dying; lighting a road flare inside a gas filled car with no explosion (gas ain't water, folks) and on and on. My friends and I spent more time laughing then enjoying. Just like John Carter they did not think this through. Some tighter editing and elimination of silliness would have made a better movie. The best part of the movie was Charlize Theron.