I'm not going to give it a pass for its visual effects.

Rating: 6/10 (16 May 2015)

Having never watched a Mad Max film before maybe It wasn't a great idea to spend my money on a action franchise that I know little about.
Don't get me wrong the film is stunning I love the souped up cars and the setting of the film. Im glad this was filmed using practical effects rather than another CGI monster like The hobbit. The car chase scenes were amazingly shot and overall the editing, effects, direction etc. was great. I thought Charlize Theron had a good part and acted well.\
On the other hand Mad Max (Tom Hardy) had about 5 lines in the whole movie and read them out with the same dull expression on his face. I saw very little signs of madness apart from out of context flashbacks that I may have got if I had watched the other three films. This bothered me. There was virtually no character development and instead we got 2 hours of a car chase. I wasn't expecting much more but atlas let me invest in the characters so I'm not watching mind numbingly dull and repetitive chase sequences where I don't care who lives or dies. The villains were also poorly developed with little incentive to chase Max and co down the road for days. The girls that were being "saved" were the most dull motionless set of models. They just stood there.
This brings me nicely on to my next point the plot or rather lack of it. Basically Max gets captured by some white monster things, he escapes into a truck with Charlize Theron's character. they try to find safety from the war boys and in the end just go back to where they came from. No twists, no character development, no story.
6/10. I don't understand how people can give this movie a perfect 10. Are they blind to the stale acting, 10 lines of dialoge and a glorified car chase for 2 1/2 hours