Grinding, Boring, Empty, Cartoonish

Rating: 3/10 (19 May 2015)

This movie will bore adults who are over 40 years old. They have seen this type of video game before. I could not understand their words, rarely, because of their accents. But I knew and saw of the 2nd "Road Warrior" with Mel Gibson. I liked that movie a lot. It had style; it took me to an odd end of the world idea I had never contemplated.
This movie is similar to "The Temple of Doom". It seems that mountains need to be carved up with skull symbols. What a lot of work for a people who are trying to survive on nothing: Carving up mountains with skull symbols.
The problem here is that the hero is immediately made into a slave. Whereas Mel Gibson had that cool sawed off shotgun to tuck into his belt, this hero has nothing so symbolic.
I will get right down to it. I was bored 1/2 way through. I started to fall asleep in the middle of one of the latter chase scenes. This was because I did not expect to see anything new.
The color of the sands was saturated by photo shop. This gave it an unreal look. So, I felt it was more of an alien planet. But no, this was Earth. I could not understand the plot. They were trying to save a water truck or something.
If you are bored reading this review; just think how bored I was trying to figure out what was going on in this movie. Lots of action to get across the desert. I could see that in spades. But I could not understand why many of the people had white as an egg skin color. They looked like aliens. But this was earth. I could not understand why the cars had to be so layered with do dads. It looked fake.
The first Road Warrior, actually the second film in this series I loved. They have added polish and paint, and do dads, and weird skin paint and wrecked this line of movies.
The one film critic, Mick La Salle gave this movie a "50" out of 100 points. I think I agree with him and with none of the others.
This movie is for kids. It is for people who have only seen a few movies in their lifetime.