I dunno what happened here. I saw this a while back and THOUGHT I loved it. It is right in my wheel house. Tom Hardy. Dystopian future. Great visuals. But woof. I am glad I went and re watched so I could review. This was a shocker. I remember liking it, or thinking I liked it so much and it was like a sure fire 8 +.
Honestly, I found this movie to be REALLY boring. I think I am being generous on my score too. Zero thought provocation. I felt nothing watching it. Visuals were amazing. But it was just really slow, lots of pretty shitty fight scenes, no backstory, no character development, just a rushed, fighting, chasing movie in a desert.
Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron (I am on a Charlize Theron HEATER right now), are great actors. This movie just didn’t do it for me.
Essentially, Tom Hardy in this dystopian desert world is prisoner or some kind who escapes in the opening scene (no back story at all ) , and these woman who we kind out I think the ruler enslaves and makes them have his kids (no backstory) are running away from him, and Tom Hardy links up with them and they join forces to run while the king and his clan chase them down. For like 2 hours. They are looking for some place they think exists where they can hide and don’t find it and its just, look, its just not a great movie. I really think its not even that solid of a movie, if it wasn’t for the visuals. I am mean there is barely any dialogue. This might be the most overrated movie of all time. This or the Irishman its close. I begrudgingly give this a SOLID MOVIE , solely on visuals alone. With a good sound system it could be alright too. That is a review.