All The Depth, Plot and Character Development of a Pinball Machine

Rating: 4/10 (21 April 2020)

Well, it took me all of 5 years to get round to seeing the bloody overpraised monstrosity, so I accept I might not be the target demographic, but even so: how anybody ever had the nerve to call Fury Road a great film is beyond me. It has all the depth, plot and character development of a pinball machine.
It's not a TERRIBLE film, but it IS a very dull, empty and meaningless one, with no believable, likeable or even understandable characters in sight, and pretty much the entire cast, with the possible exception of Charlize Theron, is Australian soap opera level at best, and the bevy of supermodel brides some way below that. Tom Hardy's accent seems to roam across three continents for no discernible reason throughout, changing nationality from line to line and scene to scene on a whim. The dialogue is to all intents and purposes non-existent, certainly overwhelmingly unnecessary, consisting primarily of people pointing and screaming things like "I'M GOING OVER THERE NOW!"
Having said all that, and excusing the gaudy overabundance of CGI, I will say some of the action scenes are handled well, with a few good set-pieces and the occasional spot of successful tension-building thrown in. And maybe today that's all some people need.