Unrealistically negative (just shoot me now!)

Rating: 6/10 (29 February 2016)

I have always found the Mad Max films and their ilk, for all their sound and fury action, to be boring. This is because the stories are set in a world where no one who lives there would actually want to go on living! A good story needs a certain amount of raison d'être for it to be worth watching until the end. If I ever found myself living in such a world, I would not care to go on living in it. Just kill me and get it over with.
This is the main problem with these films. I think it takes a certain level of emotional sickness to find such a world entertaining. This one, unlike the original Mel Gibson films, really minimizes the back-story of Max's tragic origins and it also minimizes his altruism. We are left with pure survival for survival's sake. But in a world without joy or even any reasonable prospect of longevity for one's self or one's children, what's the point?
Perhaps the sick minds behind such films see the present world in the same terms. I feel truly sorry for such an outlook, but I cannot identify with it. As bad as the present world is, it still presents us with the simple joys and beauties of God's intended creation, as well as a reasonable expectation of happiness, which is the basis for most modern constitutions.
This film is finely made and acted, so I give it a 6. Too bad it's lack of hope makes the story of no real interest. Everyone in it should just give up and die. Perhaps the only hope would be that the Wise Creator would just obliterate it, forget about it, and start over from scratch?