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Rating: 1/10 (5 October 2015)

I am a huge fan of the original Mad Max movie. For me it is about the struggle to stay human in an inhuman world. To preserve that tiny bit of dignity, that differentiates us from the beasts that inhabit the deserts.
Fury Road takes everything from the Mad Max franchise and blows it up. Literally. This movie made me squirm in my seat and I was close to leaving the theater. The visuals are stunning, but there is nothing that ties them together. It is like a bucket of special effects of all end time movies, stirred together infused with a big budget and poured over the viewer in a meaningless way. The feeble attempts to create an artistic look to some of the scenes (e.g. while driving through the wasteland) are so random that they are lost on the spectator.
The guiding principle of Max struggling with being a true survivor and trying to stay human is cut out of Fury Road. There are some hints, but for character development, this is the weakest Mad Max ever.
My biggest problem with the movie is that most action scenes are so over the top that they simply are ridiculous. I do appreciate the wasteland weirdo as any Mad Max fan would, but in Fury Road they are just so exaggerated that it is too much. And I am not even talking about the whole plot being full of logic errors.
This thing is a B-Movie with a big budget that can't make up its mind, what it wants to be in the first place and then simply turns all the Dollars into explosions. And that does not compute or entertain.