Great action visuals, with no understanding.

Rating: 8/10 (29 September 2015)

Mad Max - Fury Road is a visually stunning movie, with great action scenes, which is most of the movie. But the lack of explaining to the audience who don't know the world of Mad Max is confusing and can take away from the emotional connection to the story. The performances are fine, but Max |Tom Hardy|, who's the title character seems like a secondary star to Furiosa |Charlize Theron|. Furiosa is a good lead, but she's not what the story should be based around. Max barely gets any lines in the movie, and seems to not be important to the plot of the movie. There is a lack of understanding of the story and the world of the movie, with very few scenes to explain the world and it's people. The positives are very good though, the action set pieces are visually stunning, with a lot of practical effects. The chase is very exciting, with a variety of spiked cars and trucks, even with someone playing a rock song on one of the trucks. The villain is really good, but again there is no depth in the characters and the world, to really get invested in the story and what happens to the characters.
Overall, Mad Max - Fury Road is a fun film to watch, but doesn't live up to it's expectations, the story and characters aren't well developed enough for the audience to care. I'll give this film a Matinée.