Oh my God

Rating: 10/10 (13 December 2016)

I won't say that this movie took me on a wild ride because that would be the pinnacle of uninventive writing, but well, OK - it did! Being familiar with the old Mad Max installments, I had trouble imagining where a new one could go. But of course, like everybody else, I got excited by the teasers as well as all the hype that started building around the release. And - to quote my summary line: Oh my God! Isn't it amazing how much fun can still be had with a movie that isn't much more than trucks chasing each other (and, here and there, explode in a big ball of fire)?! It goes to show that a dreamlike quality - in this case a nightmarish one - can go a long way compared to so many movies nowadays that are too talky or that are just too much like literature or even more often like the comic strips they were made of. This is a movie that doesn't tell us anything - it's a movie that is mainly just showing us stuff! And what great stuff it is!