Sidekick Max and the Victoria Secret Models!

Rating: Null/10 (16 May 2015)

"Mad Max Fury Road" was a complete letdown and a complete crap fest of a movie. I thought this was going to be the highlight of the summer movie season, a movie season drowning in mediocre superhero flicks and resurrected dino-crap...yes I'm looking at you "Age Of Ultron" and "Jurasic World".
I was soo looking forward to Miller's newest take on the Mad Max franchise. It is not even close to the first two movies and even weaker and worse than "Beyond Thunderdome". A crummy and unnecessary 3D conversion, badly edited, terrible script, idiotic plot and meaningless storyline...and just an incoherent cacophony of sights and sounds desperately grasping at some kind of nostalgic replay..which doesn't succeed in the least.
The original trilogy is miles ahead (pun intended). People are just soo underwhelmed by the yoke of Marvel continuously spewing their mindless drivel, that they are trying desperately to latch on to any movie that seems, or pretends to be different. But "Fury Road" is not different from its spandex clad cinematic brethren.
The relentless nature and frenetic pacing are meant to convey the wild and crazy imagination of George Miller. But if Miller was a visionary, as all the promo captions loudly proclaim, that was in the past, 30 years ago. Now the most vision he has is what brand of adult diapers he will choose to buy...because this movie has nothing "visionary" about it! It is just pretentious hogwash, supported by audience members and critics who desperately need to convince themselves that this movie is the Second Coming! Anyone who thinks or says different....is to be shunned and exiled to the Wasteland...only in the case of "Fury Road" that was Namibia and not the actual Australian Outback.
This movie is supposedly rated R/14A, but I never got that feeling all throughout the movie. There is more violence, gore and mature themes in a single episode of "The Walking Dead" or "Game Of Thrones"! And also more quality.
When Tom Hardy (an excellent actor) as Max, turns out to be second fiddle to Charlize Theron's (an over-hyped and overrated actress if I ever saw one) Imperatora Furiosa, the movie takes a sharp dive. When they parade the Victoria Secret models, aka the wives of the villain whose name is...whatever...because he is irrelevant, as the raison d'etre of the movie...then it becomes bad. When the resolution of the movie is to return from where they started out, after being chased for almost the entire movie in the opposite direction, then "Fury Road" crashes, burns...and finally becomes...crap!
The original Mad Max trilogy, well at least the first two movies, were a big-punk-rock-counterculture middle finger to mainstream society and the socio-political and economic environment of the late 70's and early 80's.
The current incarnation is but a pale shadow! "Mad Max Fury Road" is a conformist, corporate driven, empty spectacle pretending to be something it is not...original and visionary. It is a by-the-numbers, test-audience dictated exercise in mediocrity.
Boy this will be a looooong summer at the movies...and not in a good way!