Awful

Rating: 1/10 (11 March 2016)

What was the purpose of this film? It has a budget that is many times greater than the original film, and none of the qualities that Mad Max had. The 80s film was great fun and it reflected much of the spirit of that decade. It was also simple, sincere, and despite the violence, quite innocent in intent. But what about this new version? It has no reason to exist, other than to make money. It is not an homage to the 80s in any real sense, it exploits that era's cinematic ingenuity, bastardizes it and throws in all kinds of nonsense that plague our nihilistic age. The new film is a film about nothing, it is sterile and empty of meaning. It is a p.c. nightmare in which lone women drive cars in deserts and beat men up to survive. It's kind of ironic that a film about anarchy, rebellion, and brute struggle for survival actually caters to the sensibilities of a weak, entitled, spoiled, deluded, politically correct generation that conforms completely and indulges in fantasies about human nature that have no basis in reality and that would be shattered in an instant in the kind of universe Mad Max depicts.