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yup whenever those drums came on it was ridiculously rumbley. i know that's not a word but DAMN!

Well that was one hell of a 'wham-bang-thankyou-mam' of a movie! That was like everyone on set was on speed! Relentless!!!! Jack gooseberry fool story though. 8/10

I really wish I'd seen it during the opening week. It was off the Atmos screen by the time I got around to it. I can only imagine how spectacular it would have been on that!

Saw it last night and I'm not entirely sure where all the love is coming from.
It was a decent action movie with an excellent soundtrack and visual style.
What acting there was was good, if not great.
Tom Hardy's accent was all over the place, but with so little dialogue it's hard to judge.
It was all appropriately mental and while it's probably been about 20 years since I saw a Mad Max movie it certainly seemed to "fit" with the others.
The action was good. But I just felt it was lacking something. For instance I can't really think of any specific stunts or sequences that I thought were especially stand out. It seemed to find a level of action, but never really stepped it up at all. Made it feel a bit flat.
I think it would have benefited from being about ten minutes or so shorter.

So in the end I'm not sure where I stand with it. On the one hand I did really enjoy it, but on the other I came out feeling a touch disappointed. 7.5/10

Saw it again on IMAX. Bloody marvellous.

Ditto, on the world's third largest screen no less. Almost better on second viewing.

ok was debating whether to see this again but now i'm sure i want to

BFI IMAX booked!

fantastic on the bigger screen. as usual 3D is still utter shite but managed to get used to it.

can't wait for the blu-ray.

Absolutely loved this tonight.

Just bought the artbook! So good.

Watched it last night and very VERY entertaining!

1) Mad Max wasn't mad enough and he almost seems to be subplot afterthought with the fantastic Charlize taking over EVERYTHING when on the screen.
2) There was bizarrely NOT enough action sequences.
3) How wafer thin was that plot ???

7/10

It was a two hour long car chase, how could there not be enough action!?

Granted there were plenty of action but not enough sequences that really stood out. All the big pieces were over too quickly, not enough of a build up to a big signature scene.

Example: Speed, now that film went like the clappers as well BUT when a big scene was coming up, the build up to the bus jumping over a section of unpaved freeway or doing the 90 degrees turn on two wheels for example, there was a hugely satisfying build up to the whole thing. I didn’t get that in this movie.

Sorry but did you actually watch the film? because it would seem by that statement you didn't.

Yes I watched the entire film.

In fact I had the whole of Screen 1 to my family as there was only 3 other people in it. Rest assured I fully paid attention. It is a minor quibble mind.

NOT ENOUGH ACTION SCENES WTF

TigaSefi wrote:Granted there were plenty of action but not enough sequences that really stood out. All the big pieces were over too quickly, not enough of a build up to a big signature scene.

Example: Speed, now that film went like the clappers as well BUT when a big scene was coming up, the build up to the bus jumping over a section of unpaved freeway or doing the 90 degrees turn on two wheels for example, there was a hugely satisfying build up to the whole thing. I didn’t get that in this movie.

That was my issue and why I previously described the film as having felt fairly flat.

I don't agree that there wasn't enough action, there was, there just never seemed to be any escalation. You could have transplanted the vast majority of action sequences into any part of the film. It just never seemed to build to any kind of crescendo. Partly it's because the action was so big and in your face from the start, but there was no stand out "That was the one" sequence in the film.
For examples..

Die Hard, builds and builds till John ties the fire hose round his waist and jumps off the roof as the bombs go off.
Speed, builds and builds till they jump the bus.
Terminator 2, builds and builds until the Cyberdyne raid.
The Matrix, builds and builds until the Morpheus rescue sequence (Lobby shoot-out to "he is the one").

But as with Tiga I still really enjoyed it, I just think it has a couple of small flaws (I would have like to have seen more of Max for example).