Cheeky Devlin wrote:It probably ties in with the fact that Max himself never really got to do too much and I was sitting there waiting for him to have that ultimate bad-ass moment that just didn't materialise.
That's the point, though. Max doesn't get that stand-out badass moment because he knows that for everyone to survive and come out the other side they all have to work
together. Case in point - He knows that Furiosa is more likely to make the shot than he is and they've only got one bullet left and he's totally okay with being half deaf as long as it gives everyone the chance to get out of there alive. He's lost too many people in the wasteland to risk ruining everyone chances of survival in pursuit of that one bad-ass moment.
Everyone is looking for redemption, and everyone gets it.
Max makes some friends and actually manages to keep (most of) them alive and safe this time, Furiosa gets the wives and the warriors to the new green place, and Nux sacrifices himself in a totally okay fashion and gives everyone else the chance to make it back in one piece.I'm not entirely sure that "all the action was hella bad-ass and bombastic and incredible and FIRE-BREATHING GUITARS OH MY GOD" is really that much of a criticism. Yeah, there weren't any obvious car chases/crashes/explosions that would have definitely been in the trailer, but surely that's a good thing? Because a trailer can't ruin all the best moments if the best moments are all two hours of the film.
Also Max's badass moment pretty much happens off camera when
he disappears on his own into the night to get some ammo: "...It's not his blood"