Terribly uninspired homage to original series makes for a high budget load of crap

Rating: 6/10 (9 September 2015)

This film contains so many scene references to the original it becomes annoying and boring after just 20 short minutes. If you loved the first three Mad Max films, the continual references to the highlights of the first three films become an awful and inescapable cliché. Combine that with an ending straight out of the lesser-known (and much better) 80s flick Solarbabies and you've got yourself essentially a high budget B movie.
There are also other huge deficiencies. Max has very little dialogue and is an extremely boring character. Max had a son in the original, not a daughter. Max's Dodge Interceptor was destroyed in the Road Warrior, and yet Max is driving it in the opening scene of this drivel. Every car in this film has a blower, not just Max's car. The little men running around covered in a white powder with black markings on their face? That's a straight ripoff of a character in Beyond Thunderdome.
Did not the writer have a single unique contribution to the series? Yes he did: Max has a psychic premonition in which his daughter saves his life. Now Mad Max has spirits and is a religious film? What a load of crap!
The continual road fighting is so exhausting, they should have named the film "Mad Max: Two days on a truck".
You know what would have made this film so much better? If it had been written by, directed by, and starred Mel Gibson.