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What description springs to mind when you think: Mad Max. For
me personally, I picture Mel Gibson driving down the Highway with a sawn-off
shotgun and a GT Ford Falcon Coupe. Fast forward 35 years and not much has
changed. Still in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, still got Max and still got
some pretty cool high octane stunts. Only problem: It seems like the same
entire formulae has been repeated and regurgitated for a modern audience.
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Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the film. As I did most of the
movies we have reviewed. Not to mention, with actors such as Tom Hardy and
Charlize Theron, and George Miller at the helm, great visual effects, high
octane stunts (as mentioned before), 10 Academy Award Nominations and a 97% on
Rotten Tomatoes (Yes, 97 PERCENT!), It is difficult to fault such a movie.
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On top of a recycled list of plot features, the fact that the
story was incoherent, disjointed, had no general direction and made a 2 hour
run time feel like a decade left me feeling like I was waiting for something…
and the explosions! Wooo …... and waiting again…. and still waiting.
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All in all, A decent film that got a bit full of itself with
Oscar nominations and decided to save budget on writing by taking all the previous
Mad Max movie plots, putting them in a blender and then reconstructing them in
no discernible order.
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The idea of
Birdman was brilliant. A washed up actor (Michael Keaton) known for playing a
superhero (*cough* Batman *cough*) wants to finally be taken seriously in his
acting (perhaps via a film such as this).
