Wacky Races on steroids!

Rating: 5/10 (26 May 2016)

I actually had quite high hopes for this film. I had heard good things from friends, from some critics and though a 6 time Oscar winner would be quite good. Oh how wrong was I! A film such as this was never going to have a fascist style dictator in a dystopian world emerge victorious, but a little bit of fight in them wouldn't have gone amiss. The fact that within the first thirty minutes of the film you knew they would escape with as little as a scratch infuriated me. The whole "chase" idea just turned into one long race, which was closer to Pod Racing in The Phantom Mence. The acting in the film was mild at best. Tom Hardy and Charlize Theorn are two very good actors who were reduced to little more than grunts and tepid dialogue for the whole two hours of pointlessness. The only thing that this film truly does get right though is the cinematography! A beautiful example of how CGI should be done.