Visually amazing but lacking depth

Rating: 6/10 (26 May 2015)

George Miller did a great job setting up this spectacular world with the desert landscape, the post apocalyptic war vehicles and the characters that all seem so unique. The shots are great, the battle scenes quite intense and the special effects will blow your mind! Fury Road's depiction of the world is visually beautiful, bright and so special that can be surely characterized as pure art.
However Fury Road shouldn't be just that. It's not all about the action scenes and the special effects. All this tense failed to pass to a psychological level. Fury Road could pass a great range of messages but not even tried. The movie shows a post-apocalyptic world where the earth has been utterly destroyed and people have gone mad killing each other for water and fuel throughout a vast wasteland. And all this madness, all this vanity, pain and wretchedness fail to touch you and the acting alone couldn't just do the job. Despite the fact that acting was overly good, especially Charlize Theron is great as Furiosa, lacked emotion. Tom Hardy's dark past didn't seem to affect him as he remained neutral and cold throughout the whole movie. His reactions didn't correspond to the shocking images he kept seeing about the people he failed to save.
In conclusion, Fury Road is an exhilarating action movie with extraordinary artistic cinematography lacking depth. But in a movie like that, depth is what can make it special.