Meh...

Rating: 6/10 (16 May 2015)

After seeing this, it apparently doesn't seem as if much has changed in 30 years. OK, It obviously has a bigger budget than any of the last 3 movies combined, and it looks visually stunning. Unfortunately this movie comes across as a standard Mad Max adventure and really isn't much different from Mad Max: The Road Warrior (1982) or Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) with Thunderdome being the most ambitious one of them all. The story to this one is very similar to the Road Warrior, starting pretty much in the same way. As the story went on, with the movie essentially being just one big chase scene, I found it rather boring and I saw myself dozing off since all the visuals I've seen done before much better in the Road Warrior 33 years ago with real practical effects and no green screen. Most of the movie to me was just a regurgitation of old visuals and ideas I've already seen. I would've preferred to see Mel Gibson return and see the evolution of the character 30 years later. So to me there was nothing new about this movie. Now even though people say this is a reboot, there is obviously a sense of continuity from the last 3 films, it just comes to figuring out where this fits in. It definitely appears to be a direct sequel to the original Mad Max (1979) since he still has a working Interceptor, the one sleeved leather jacket and the leg brace. Even at the end of the movie you can believe that he somehow recovers the Interceptor and restores it before the events of The Road Warrior since the Interceptor is totalled halfway through it. Anyways, final word, even though I was pretty psyched to see this movie, my overall reaction is meh...