Good and Disappointing at the same time

Rating: 4/10 (24 May 2015)

I've just returned from seeing Mad Max Fury Road, and on the ride home I was reflecting upon what I just watched. I'll start with the pros - non-stop action start to finish if your thing is watching crazy make-shift vehicles chase down a tanker truck and fire bomb, harpoon, and shoot it up. It seems like this was just one long chase. the cons - and here is where I'm disappointed - I'm a big Tom Hardy fan, but he doesn't get the opportunity to shine here. Why not? Its like the third Hobbit movie, where the main character Bilbo is reduced to a support character. That's what happens to Max in this movie. I won't even refer to him as MAD Max, because there's no backstory to let us know WHY Max should be MAD. Plus, the dialogue, as in WHAT dialogue?? They gave Hardy like 30 words total to say. How the hell is the guy supposed to build a character on that? More time was given to Charlize, which is OK because she is such a great actress, but how about letting her look a little better instead of the concentration camp haircut and the Terminator forearm. The special effects were great, plenty of action, but at the end when the kid overturns the rig, wouldn't it have been more fitting to have an explosion THEN??? And another thing, in this post apocalyptic world, I guess there is just an endless supply of water in a desert, huh? I mean so much that with the flip of a switch gallons upon gallons can simply be wasted??? Oh, and another thing - how the hell did those old women survive out in the desert for like 7000+ days (according to Theron's character) WITHOUT ANY WATER? And why would they have simply stuck around there anyhow if, by their own admission, the muddy area that the truck was getting stuck in had become a toxic site years before anyhow? Did George Miller consider any of this when he was reviewing the storyline, or did he simply take his gazillion dollar check to the bank, made sure it cleared, then said "OK, lets do whatever the hell we want now"? Finally, one last rant, if I may - who the hell are the morons giving 10 star reviews? I mean, seriously??? Overall, I'm really more disappointed than anything else in this. I think I would have enjoyed Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 better.