saw it, as a mad max movie it sucked IMO.
max had almost no dialog, no character development.
almost his sole dialog was a monologue to himself/audience
at the start essentially saying "I'm crazy because I failed to save some people after the world went to shit"
He was essentially a cardboard caricature put there to sell a movie with mad max in the title.
If you expect to see a "Roadwarrior" movie with Max as an actual self-sacrificing hero type, skip this movie....
Had some cool visuals for the vehicles though.
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What sucked -
He starts off looking like a hobo, gets captured right at the beginning and cleaned up by the bad guys.
His biggest action sequence is right here when he tries to escape and fails.
You really don't see him go "bad ass" on anyone - although it is implied in one "after action" scene.
He doesn't kill the villain, and never really has any sort of "hey e - do I survive or try to help out" forced on him.
His only real contribution is towards the end when he convinces the escapees that they should head back and take over the place they left.
The movie had some cool visuals, but I think they spent too much time on some scenery shots at the expense of characters.
I'd say the best performance was probably Nicholas Hoult as a "war boy" - essentially he ended up in the mad max role almost.
The only negative I can say is the conversion of his character seemed a little too easy
- from "I'm a bad guy who REALLY believes in what I'm doing" - to -
"Hey, you mean all those fanatical beliefs I held all my life are wrong?"
"Okay I'll do a 180 and now I'm a good guy"
It was an action movie where essentially all the good characters were female, and all the bad ones were male. But they were almost ALL throwaway parts IMO.
Charlize Theron was okay but she did not seem to fit IMO as an action hero. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for bad ass females action movies - Underworld and Resident Evil, but this was supposed to be Mad Max.