Pretty much "meh"!

Rating: 5/10 (27 April 2019)

The Movie seems to be pretty polarizing, which i see no reason for, some make it to be the masterpiece of the century other lable it as a trainwreck.
I think most fitting is something in the middle, cause overall the stunts, scenery and effects were pretty nice. The movie has its strong points obviously in the action department. I think Theron did a pretty good job at portraying a tough girl in apocalyptic times and steals the show of Hardy that was somewhat lacking a chance to shine. A fine actor was wasted on a role that could have been played just as well by any 90s action movie hero ( Van Damme, Stalone, Dudikoff, Arnold)
My main critique will be the failed world building, i get that this is an action movie but from what i know about the other mad max movies this just doesnt cut it. You get zero information or background about anything:

what about the different tribes?
what are these ghost vision Max sees, about?
where do the breeding women come from?
what is the back story of the different areas they pass through (salt flats, swamp)
who killed the world? yeah who!?

-what about the blood transfusion and tatoos on Max' back
the list is so long, they could have cut some action and throw in some scene where they are just driving and tell each other something or pass on some information for the girls and the audiance. Or some old dude just narrates it ,whatever. As mentioned by many other negative reviews the whole idea to turn around came a bit sudden, and their plan is to trap the main forces and take the city, evading a fight. Instead they just run straight into them. What kind of a dumb plan is that?
I really love the post apocalyptic scenario, but i have yet to find a film that can fill it with life, most of the time you just get a very small glimpse at the world and what happened. Damn i want Information how the rest of the world is doing, how the whole situation came to be, how people survived and managed to build up a new society. This might be the worst movie in that regard in that genre with such a big budget.