The barren landscape beyond the end of the world is apparently the most robust playground to create deeply dynamic moving images. Mad Max is a "movie" -- a plethora of titillating fun. All performances fall in line and unequivocally mount to form the beating heart of this monster. After seeing it in cinemas, at home and in airplanes, I can tell you Mad Max is grand in all its forms. It is a pure pleasure.

After a 30-year break, George Miller returned for a fourth entrance of Mad Max franchise. It was quickly hailed as one of the best action films of the 2010s, earning top score reviews from numerous outlets. On an action level Fury Road was fantastic with it being constant thrill race with all its car chases and explosions. The final act was basically The Road Warrior on steriods.

Whilst Fury Road was a Mad Max film, the titular character he was a supporting character in his own film. He was literally along for the ride at the beginning of the film. Charlize Theron's Imperator Furiosa was really the main character. She was the driving force of the plot and the action and Max just helped her. The story of young women escaping being sex slaves gave Fury Road feminist overtones.

Whilst it satisfies as an action level the story and screenplay was skeleton thin. It's not a writing masterpiece like some critics have made it out to be.

The music by Junkie XL was amazing.

I realize a lot of people will disagree with me ... but personally ... I don't like movies that leave me scratching my head with a lot of questions at the end. I prefer to ... you know ... understand the movies I'm watching.

Now we get from the film that the world as we know it has ended. They are fighting over gasoline and are running out of water. There's this guy Max who used to be a cop who has become a drifter trying to survive. There's this guy Immortan Joe who is really scary, clearly has health issues, and is bogarting all the water from the people. He's got a bunch of blood sucking kids dressed as skeletons who are his lackeys ... and he keeps a harem of women against their will (gross).

Furiosa grew up in a "green" place with a bunch of other women ... was taken by Joe when she was young. She wants to get back there and the "breeders" beg her to take them. And the film is basically them trying to get away from Joe who is trying to get them back. As plots go ... it's extremely basic.

But that is it ... that's all we know and it's all we find out (except that the green place is gone). There are a lot of MENTIONS of things that never actually get explained AND THIS IS MY PROBLEM.

Who is Immortan Joe? Why does he look like that? How did he wind up controlling all the water? Why are they drinking breast milk? Why are the boys called "half-lives" and dressed like skeletons? Why do they need "blood bags"? What is with the silver teeth thing? What is all this Valhalla, shiny, chrome, what? Why do they have a vehicle that spits fire with a dude playing electric guitar on it? How did Furiosa lose her arm? Who was Furiosa to Joe? WHO DID KILL THE WORLD? (they keep asking and it never gets answered even a little bit)

I had to look it up ... and I hate when movies don't explain things to the point where I have to look them up. That's what is called BAD STORYTELLING.

I won't spoil it by telling you what was there but there is SO MUCH CRAZY INFORMATION that the movie just left out to make room for more fighting and chase scenes. This movie is 2 hours long and they couldn't fit any more story into it?

Sorry guys ... that's some bad bad writing.