Surprisingly Great

Rating: 10/10 (26 May 2015)

This was a truly amazing movie. It surpassed all my expectations and left me with a warm fuzzy feeling inside. Tom Hardy slayed as Mad Max, and Charlize Theron as Furiosa kicked major bad guy ass. 10/10
(Okay, there were plot holes, like a lot of plot holes. Some things definitely didn't make 100% sense, like the weird bog men in the 'greenplace' that were never explained, the chrome spray applied to mouths/teeth during battle was also never acknowledged, nor what exactly Furiosa was seeking redemption for. A lot was left open ended and unexplained, such as the 'greenplace' becoming polluted; is it to be assumed that the fertile land was poisoned by the people who kidnapped Furiosa and her mother, as the land only started to decline after they had been taken? Was Furiosa's arm a natural abnormality, not an obvious conclusion considering none of the other women from the 'greenplace' had similar abnormalities or any discernible abnormalities at all, or did she somehow lose it during her upbringing at the citadel? What was her relationship with Immortan Joe? How did she become an Imperator, and was the intent behind her becoming one always that she would rescue the girls from sex slavery?
There was a lot of background information and world lore missing that could have added a whole new depth to the movie and I found myself afterwords wanting to know their back stories, wanting a prequel.
But more so than any of that, Mad Max Fury Road had a recognizable and complex plot that action movies just don't typically have. It had an actual story to go with the flaming car race from hell and it was so completely refreshing that I honestly couldn't complain about the minor faults in this movie.)