Here's a golden rule you should follow in filmmaking. If you're going to give us a bunch of exposition on what's happening in your world, make sure we care about that world to begin with.
I don't get the plot of this movie. Everybody's looking for these magical crystals and the entire film feels like it's ripping off Star Wars more than it is Mad Max.
I didn't want to click on a Mad Max clone movie just to get some low grade science fiction. I want a low-grade Mad Max rip off.
It's not that hard to change the story to make it so. Instead of crystals have everybody hunting down Coal.
They have to power their vehicles with Coal because the gas is all gone.
Then, not only can you copy the style of Mad Max but you can copy the story as well. Just replace gas with Coal and make every vehicle depended on that resource. Have a few train-cars driving around. It's not like they didn't have the ability to do that in this film. They have all these silly looking science fiction vehicles. I think it would have been easy enough to switch that out with combustion trains.
Is this world in an apocalypse or not? Everybody lives as if civilisation has completely crumbled but they still have finances and some form of a stable economy going on. This world is completely undefined and yet they have heavy exposition to explain really Minor Details with certain Clans and power dynamics between other people.
This movie has no business being an hour and 20 minutes long. There's so many lingering uninteresting shots. It's pretty clear they had no idea what the heck they were doing and where just trying to fill out as much time as possible.
And that's to say nothing of this weird hallucinogenic drug but this one robots spray that people. Even if it hits your pant leg it'll still cause you to go on a trip.
The weird gang of robots that roam about, shooting random people and firing hallucinogenic drugs at them; Kind of reminds me of the Angel Gang from the Judge Dredd comics. There kind of half man half robot folk who are more interested in fighting and causing mayhem than anything else.
Too bad they couldn't bring any of the charm of the Angel Gang with them. That might have made for a better movie.
All I've done is bad mouth this film from beginning to end. Unfortunately it's not such a bad experience that you're have to laugh at the inadequacy and nothing about it is interesting enough to point out and say: ''Hey at least they got this one good bit".
The whole thing just feels incredibly stagnant. The story is boring and kind of convoluted at the same time.
You just don't care about any of these people because they weren't given any personality and the actors are doing a bad job of betraying any sense of emotion. It's just not worth the time.
I was kind of hoping for a dumb fun action flick. Something with the Aesthetics of Mad Max but the effects of Hobo with a shotgun or Death-Wish 3.
A film that was entertaining without being thought provoking. But it's just a bad science fiction movie wearing the skin of Mad Max.
My appreciation for the original Mad Max films has only gone up after watching this movie. When I looked at those original films I don't really think a lot about them. The premise is fairly simple. Max himself isn't that well-defined (compared to the universe around him and excluding the very first movie.) The overall environment is kind of simple, when you get down to it. But you don't realise how much effort goes into all the details, props and the subtle nuances that go into character development and proper casting.
At least not until you watch something like this piece of crap film where they weren't able to do any of it right. You watch the entire project fall apart and devolve into something that even a Bad episode of Power Rangers wouldn't put up with.
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