Good message, bad movie

Rating: 3/10 (27 May 2015)

First, I really appreciate the feminist message presented in Fury Road. More movies with this message need to happen. In the beginning, I was excited to see the women coming out on top time and again. Also, the shift in focus from gasoline to water was a nice nod to modern global issues.
However, Fury Road suffers from an unfortunate execution. Fury Road was simply a beginning, one very long chase scene, and an end. It was that bad. I miss the variety of previous Mad Max movies of which the chase scenes were a treasured component. Fury Road lacked character development and plot to complement the chase scenes. They needed to stop somewhere, meet the villagers, solve a problem -- or at least provide some events away from the vehicles to break up the chase scene.
All in all, Fury Road was tedious and I felt like leaving halfway through the movie.