This is just about as amazing as a movie can be without any signs of a good story.

Rating: 4/10 (15 May 2015)

I was actually quite hooked the first 10-15 minutes, the cinematography was surprisingly sublime for what I thought to be an ordinary action film. The colours, sounds and everything visual was just extraordinary.. at first. But you need more than just that to carry a movie all the way to the end, and this movie had absolutely nothing else to offer. Guns, grenades and explosions? Cool. Fast cars, trucks and monstertrucks banging into each other? Cool. But when at least 80% of this movie is exclusively cars, trucks and monstertrucks banging into each other while shooting and throwing speargrenades in high speed, things get real boring at one point. You sit and wait for a sorely needed turning point, and when you think it has finally come, you realize that it's not a turning point in its common sense, it's a literal turning point! After having followed the film's unbelievably lucky main characters crossing the desert in a truck whilst fighting for about an hour, they stop, and do a damn U-turn to do the same thing all over again.. And the action scenes are nothing short of repetitive. How many times do we have to see Charlize Theron make a determined expression and then bang into the cars following her, how many times do we have to see some white warboy throw an explosive spear? Cool for 20 minutes, but for an hour and a half? No. Long action scenes work only when combined with good screen writing and a good underlying story. No amount of beautiful cinematography, authentic explosions and whatnot can make up for the lack this movie has of the basics; a good story and interesting characters. If this film stays among the top films on the top250 list, I will be ashamed to be an IMDb-user. In terms of cinematography and orginality, this movie is an achievement. If you like movies that don't give a damn about screen writing, this is the movie for you! If you prefer a film with substance, save your money and your time.