Review of Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) by Varden L — 29 May 2016

Was not impressed with the remake what so ever. I'm sorry but while I can possibly come to let go of crazy Mel doing the role I just didn't really connect with any of the characters in this movie because they felt more of silhouettes of characters than every possessing any real substance.

In fact this was really apparent in every character in this movie as you didn't get to get to know about them really feel like you could relate to them. At least in the original movie when Max's wife was run down out in the middle of the road you felt the horror and disgust of what was going on and could sympathize with Max for vengence.

However this movie had none of that real grit teeth clenching moments where you could identify with any character. Furthermore, it just pained me to see how secondary they Max himself when he was what all of em were every about.

No longer was he intelligent and cunning he just seems empty and stale like the very theme of this movie. To say more, It just seemed like this movie was nothing but one long ass car chase there an unbelievable dusty surroundings that looked like a back lot of any movie studio and not anything familiar to the Australian Outback.

Which brings me to the next thing I hate about this movie was just didn't feel the apocalyptic surroundings as I did with the 2 original movies and that really took me out of the movie big time to carry the backdrop of the chaos of the tone of the film.

it was the same reason that beyond thunderdome in my eyes was an abomination. This made it terrible because it lacked that antagonist feel of appending doom that was always lurking near to what was going around Max in any other film.

Overall this movie was nothing more than an abortion of everything I loved about Mad Max in the comics or in the films.