This move is like a video game where the space bar, X, or A buttons are involuntarily pressed at all times, thus the audience never sees narrative cut scenes. Those of us who enjoy story aren't even encouraged to care as this movie is one seamless action sequence after the other (with the exception of some brief walking around before the main cast mounts a parade of motorcycles). I'm still left with these questions:
Who is Max? What was he doing just before he was discovered in the desert? Where does he come from? Who and what are the images he keeps seeing? Why does he offer to save the group he has joined only a day earlier? Is he a Messiah? Why is Furiosa attempting to rescue the birthers? Would it not have been easier to escape by herself? How did she come to live so far away from her family? Why does Immortan keep the water so locked up? Because it's dry? Then why on Earth are they wasting enormous quantities of it with a waterfall-esque spigot? How did Immortan come to be the leader of his group? What are his motivations for his power? Why are some of his people albino and others red as the earth? What separates them and makes their struggles unique?
If you're willing to overlook all of these things, then this might be a decent movie. But for as much hype as this movie got, I expected a really great story WITH really great action sequences. Sadly, this is more like a violent children's picture book.
Review by HexenwolfBlockedParent2016-11-25T05:59:07Z
This move is like a video game where the space bar, X, or A buttons are involuntarily pressed at all times, thus the audience never sees narrative cut scenes. Those of us who enjoy story aren't even encouraged to care as this movie is one seamless action sequence after the other (with the exception of some brief walking around before the main cast mounts a parade of motorcycles). I'm still left with these questions:
Who is Max? What was he doing just before he was discovered in the desert? Where does he come from? Who and what are the images he keeps seeing? Why does he offer to save the group he has joined only a day earlier? Is he a Messiah? Why is Furiosa attempting to rescue the birthers? Would it not have been easier to escape by herself? How did she come to live so far away from her family? Why does Immortan keep the water so locked up? Because it's dry? Then why on Earth are they wasting enormous quantities of it with a waterfall-esque spigot? How did Immortan come to be the leader of his group? What are his motivations for his power? Why are some of his people albino and others red as the earth? What separates them and makes their struggles unique?
If you're willing to overlook all of these things, then this might be a decent movie. But for as much hype as this movie got, I expected a really great story WITH really great action sequences. Sadly, this is more like a violent children's picture book.