Middle of the Loooong Desert Road

Rating: 5/10 (18 May 2015)

I love the summer Blockbuster. They are movies that I look forward to years in advance and I anticipate each opening with excitement. Same goes for Mad Max:Fury Road... unfortunately, that excitement didn't last long. True, the action was top notch and the scope was epic... but there were a few key ingredients lacking.
As you can tell from my first sentence, I have seen my fair share of Michael Bay movies and although I do like his movies, I understand some of the beef that goes along with them. But what I don't understand is how his movies get criticized so heavily for lack of story or plot, or character development, or for having too many explosions, etc etc when quite frankly, Mad Max:Fury Road had far less story than any Michael Bay movie and far less character development as well. The explosions... well, they were just as abundant and epic as any Transformers movie. Yet everyone seems to praise Mad Max: Fury Road.
First of all, this movie should've been called Furious Furiosa: Furiosa Road. She was clearly the main character and quite frankly, the only character in the movie that was worth routing for because she was the only character that had a purpose and a direction and somewhat of a back-story. Max was non-existent mostly and when he was needed, failed to impress.
Nicholas Hoult was very good as Nux but still, his character's motivation wasn't clear and his lack of back-story or development made me not care if he lived or died, or if he joined the good guys or not.
The villains were pretty cool but there were some instances that made it seem like the different groups would be against each other but then were teaming up without any reason given.
There were some memorable scenes, like the sandstorm scene, and the guitar player was awesome.
All in all this movie was average at best and a lot of hype for a story that was one long literal u-turn. If you like minimal plot and character development, explosions and dirty people being chased by even dirtier people than this movie is for you... maybe. I am not too proud to admit that I like movies with minimal plot and character development and explosions myself, but I still couldn't get into this movie. Perhaps the hype surrounding it ruined it for me, as I did see this on Sunday and many people already showered it with praises (someone close to me even said it was better than Avengers AoU) so I guess my expectations may have been a little too high. Set your expectations to a reasonable degree before sitting through two hours of one long chase scene.