Adrenaline boost! (for the most part)

Rating: 7/10 (7 October 2015)

Boy what a ride! Crazy action and visuals. But the movie is far from perfect.
The first hour of the movie was simply amazing. The movie dives straight into the world of Mad Max. I didn't question anything I just enjoyed the view. And for the first hour of it's runtime the movie more than delivered.
It was in the second half, where I encountered some problems. The movie is essentially a 2 hour long car chase. The action doesn't revolve around the plot, the little plot this movie has revolves around the action. This was fine and I didn't even care about the lack of story, until the action stopped. Due to the lack of the story I was incredibly bored when there was no action. And I'm not even an action junkie. There simply were no substance apart from the action.
It would seem that Charlize Theron's character Furiosa would be the most interesting character since she is the one who had perhaps the biggest story arc out of all the characters. But having the biggest story arc in this movie is not a whole lot. I actually found the title character Max by Tom Hardy the most interesting. His actions and his rough exterior fits him right into the movie's brutal world.
Max was a lot better character than Furiosa. Her character was trying to have some emotional depth, but ultimately it fell short in my eyes. Probably due to the lack of story in the movie. Max was just a real fighter and a survivor and the filmmakers didn't even try to make the character anything more. I really liked that! Despite what their characters were in the movie, both Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy gave good performances. Tom Hardy sure knows how to grunt.
Even though the action was amazing, I became a bit numb to it towards the end of the movie. The climax didn't have the same paralyzing effect to me anymore, like the first half of the movie did.
Overall, it was an enjoyable movie. But I can't even think how awful it would have been if the action wasn't as good as it was.