Visual over-sophistication, waste of good actors

Rating: 7/10 (3 February 2016)

The initial Mad Max movies were crazy and odd enough, but they had a solid plot with character dynamism and a lot of lines, but the one in question is a constant and rough chasing, with vague characters performed by celebrities (Hardy, Theron, Hoult - all distinct actors otherwise), model-type ladies (performing doubtful roles as heavily pregnant women handling heavy machinery and "kicking butt"), and "unseen" actors (faces with warpaint/masks). True, there are some silent and pensive scenes in the middle, but they seem out of context, as a pause for audience to catch breath before uproar starts again. Just back and forth on the same deserted landscape, with even explosions and shots not influencing some characters' exterior.
The only personage I liked somehow was Nux (skilfully performed by Nicholas Hoult), but his change of sides remained mystery to me...
All in all, the movie is like a protracted Manowar video or a road movie inside out, but the conceptual element regards visuality only. The rest is rather mediocre, at times annoying, meaning that visual effects might be a supporting component of plot only (e.g. Tarantino's movies), not the substitution of activities / logic of events.