What is this garbage?

Rating: 1/10 (2 September 2015)

I saw Mad Max around a month and a half ago. Went in expecting something, considering Tom Hardy is in it. Wasn't expecting a lot though, as it is, after all, Mad Max, and a story within such a movie is hard to find. I didn't love any of the Mad Max films, but the first was interesting.
Almost the moment it started I hated the movie. The only thing good was the intro. I was trying to find a story, who everyone was, what was supposed to be happening. Nothing is explained, as if the movie was supposed to continue directly from a previous film. It doesn't though, it just throws in characters to give there a point for those characters to be killed. Mad Max isn't Mad Max at all, nothing like Mel Gibson.
All I got out of it was there was an evil ruler, only giving people water the odd time (yet they are alive somehow), he sends out to trade fuel, they bugger off, and Mad Max finds his way into the situation. They go only so far, fighting off guys on poles and a flaming guitar dude who is apparently aiding the situation with a guitar. They find the other women, turn back, and kill the bad guys in the process and give everyone the water. I honestly don't remember the names of anyone, there was nothing at all memorable about any of the characters. It could have been Captain Ahab riding around on Moby Dick in the desert for all I care. Any story could have been made into 20 minutes: Get the truck, Mad Max breaks free and fight everyone right in that one area, instead of driving to Timbuktu for over an hour of the film and then turning around in another hour, or however long it was. Clearly if they were able to kill everyone with only a few people and a armored truck, they didn't need to drive around to do so.