Disappointing, but worth seeing once

Rating: 6/10 (12 June 2015)

Mad Max: Fury Road is an exciting movie, but for long-time fans of the series, this latest effort is simply the last twenty minutes of The Road Warrior expanded into a two-hour time frame, and the number of bad guys increased by a factor of ten! And Max is not even the main character! It should have been titled "Furiosa: Fury Road". Worth seeing once, but not a classic like The Road Warrior. Charlize Theron does a credible job, but Tom Hardy is very disappointing as Max. This is probably not his fault; Hardy is a decent actor but does not have the imposing and threatening presence of Mel Gibson. George Miller and the other writers haven't written enough of the character into this script.