Don't get addicted to gasoline because it will ruin your movie

Rating: 4/10 (23 June 2015)

As per usual when a big blockbuster comes out, some hype part of its viewers scream this is the new ultimate masterpiece that is so good they don't understand why a new religion based on it shouldn't be started immediately.
Do not get fooled : George Miller has only done what was needed to make his movie ultra popular and in this, he has succeeded. But as a movie in whole, he fails and delivers a quite lame production.
I'm not a big fan of the original Mad Max series. The 1st had its moments, the Thunderdome was a failure, but The Road Warrior was an excellent movie. I watched it again some months ago to show it to my 18 year old daughter and was still amazed by the quality of its production, its story, its multi-dimensional characters and its outrageous violence in relation to the era it was released. Foremost, it had a feel of reality that made its post-apocalyptic world totally believable ( the canned dog food scene, the fight for gasoline, the bad guys, the vehicles, etc... ).
Fury Road tries hard to revive this atmosphere... and fails.
Where Mel Gibson ( and others ) delivered a complex character, chaotic and selfish, Tom Hardy delivers nothing at all, as for the other characters that have only a few lines in stock. Thus, as it has been much said by other reviewers, it's hard to connect with them and in the end, we don't care if they live or die.
Where The Road Warrior provided a sense of reality in its everyday world, in Fury Road, the Gothic designs bring only stupidity and make things laughable ( in a world where everything is scarce, who would build a car with 2 decks one on top of the other, or who would be idiot enough to build a vehicle whose only purpose is to convey a mad metal guitarist and drummers ? ).
In ANY world, who would be stupid enough to warn anybody that being addicted to water is dangerous ? Must we remind Fury Road's villain that without water, even the baddest guy would die in a matter of 36 hours max ? What is left of Fury Road is the usual blockbuster parade : action, explosions, more action and more explosions. In that, the movies achieves what it was aimed for : mindless violence for the masses.
As for me, I got bored after the first 30 minutes and while I kept going, and despite a honorable realization and editing, I couldn't get back into the movie and waited for it to end as soon as possible.
Conclusion : watch to be able to say you've seen it ( and then have enough matter at hand to criticize it ), but when it's time to watch it again, stick to the Road Warrior.