Entertaining But Forgettable

Rating: 5/10 (16 May 2015)

THE GOOD
Fury Road has some truly awesome high-speed stunts mixed with (real) practical effects. There are only a few scenes with obvious CGI elements. The action is intense, but there is a scope to it all, no Michael Bay style 360 degree slo-mo or bullet time. Most everything looks like it was achieved in camera using real fx and real stunt people.
THE BAD
There is too much action, too many characters, not enough plot, not enough twists, not enough setup. After about an hour the action becomes redundant and tiresome.
Weird feminist undertones. Not really a complaint, but I prefer the homo-erotic undertones of the Road Warrior to Fury Road's feminism.
Max is BARELY in the movie. He has maybe 4-5 lines. Very impersonal. The rest of the time he plays second fiddle to Charlize Theron. It would have been nice to see him do something besides grunt and point. This was a bizarre choice from Miller.
Worst of all, the V8 Interceptor is crashed within the first 5 minutes and aside from a short appearance later in the film, it is barely seen at all.
Entertaining but forgettable.
5/10