No plot, not Mad Max, obvious CGI, no point in watching it.

Rating: 3/10 (23 June 2015)

Firstly this is not a Mad Max film. Max is utterly secondary to Charlize's character and the film should have been called Furious Furiosa. Mad Max is allegedly set in Australia but there's such a hodgepodge of accents here that you frankly wonder where it could possibly be set. If you can accept that the basic failing of this not being a Mad Max film you then hit a wall of other failures with this film.
There is absolutely no plot at all here. Now I regard a plot as an essential ingredient in any film. For me there absolutely has to be a point to what is happening. This film utterly rips up that notion and laughs at it. What you are left with is action only and it fails here too. CGI is a great tool for film makers but the instant you notice it it makes any action cartoon-like. CGI is very noticeable in many places here and it just destroys any semblance of reality when it appears. It's a shame because so many of the sequences have been filmed with great action only to have the CGI come along later and ruin them. CGI only works when you don't notice it.
There is almost no dialogue to the film and as such the characters are not developed in the slightest. You develop no feelings for any of them. They may as well have just hired stunt-men for the main parts for all the acting that was requested of them. The fertile Harem ladies are all supermodels. Why are only the beautiful ones fertile? Are beauty and fertility linked? Given that it's the strong who survive in this wasteland why is the chief bad guy a pensioner?
Omitting a plot seems to be a recurring Hollywood feature these days. Are there really so many people around who don't require one that this film could possibly be rated at 8.6? If people really lap this stuff up then we'll obviously be fed more. A depressing thought.
Only watch this if you can stand a pointless film with no plot and don't go to the cinema thinking you are seeing a Mad Max film. Better still find something else to watch.