There and Back Again

Rating: 6/10 (29 May 2015)

My expectations where high for this movie as I very much liked the originals and the trailer looked awesome, but unfortunately nothing in the movie lived up to my expectations.
Starting out with the casting of Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky. Perhaps it is me, but in the entire movie he's outplayed by both Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult. He doesn't show any of the charisma that Mel Gibson presented in the original series. The troubled background of Max is not shown or little referred too and the character is more following the events than creating them.
Nux (Nicholas Hoult), on the other hand, was a pleasant surprise and added some kick to an otherwise lame story. The same goes for Imperator Furiosa (whatever an Imperator may be) played by Charlize Theron. The other characters are more or less OK, but don't 'really' add to the story, including Immortan Joe.
Concerning the story, it's the most lame of all Mad Max movies. No background, no timing and the story is limited to driving from point A to point B and back again. There is no information given whatsoever about the tribes and how they work and what their relation to one another is, nor about the hierarchy or the way of living. The hints throughout the movie leave you guessing too much.
An additional credit for the movie are the visual Fx. The driving into an upcoming sandstorm was cinematographically very nice.
The end verdict would be that it is a decent Friday night movie, but not something you want to spend too much cash on.