I've finally watched the movie - issues with the final chase

[Uncle Entity]

First of all:

I never witnessed (on screen) such a terrific and gigantic MOVIE PRODUCTION before. It looks like an old 21th CENTURY FOX/MGM "KOLOSSAL" made by today standards.
It looks and feels marvellous.
Maybe I should mention it reminds me of "Waterworld". A bit. I'm honest.

Secondly:

Who's the central character? Well, everyone is wrong. It's not Max. It's not even Furiosa. There are too many characters and this feels like a movie about the MAD MAX WORLD, not Mad Max (Rockatansky) himself. Good? Bad? I don't know. The movie is amazing. It works.

The timeline is an HUGE mess. It looks like Max wasn't a conventional "cop" in the pre-apocalypse world at all, but "the" cop/Road Warrior of a post-apocalyptic clan. The little girl wore raggedy clothes, not "normal" pre-apocalypse clothes.
Everyone in his "visions" looked 100% post-apocalyptic, not pre-apocalyptic. If you know what I mean. I hope...

Furiosa clearly belonged to a post-apocalyptic clan. She was stolen 25 years before ("7.000 days") the events of the movie. She mentions "the Many Mothers" and strange post-apocalyptic names like that. Her "tribe".

So at this point I say: I give up. It looks like the world has been post-apocalyptic for 50 years or so. Maybe more. And I'm not sure that was Australia.

And now, my BIGGEST ISSUES:

In the final chase scene, everyone shines. Everyone kills someone. Everyone has action scenes. This creates a big problem to me. The final chase scene feels a bit "anticlimatic" in comparison with the opening chase scene. INDEED, Max has very little to do. Where is Max? He does his part, but there aren't "defining" Mad Max scenes featuring Max being 100% effective against someone.

The final chase scene becomes EXTREMELY anticlimatic in the end. Nux's sacrifice wasn't spectacular. No trademark big crash, no explosion, nothing. We just see that his "sacrifice" generates a big mess, but it feels extremely anticlimatic. Am I wrong? I don't know.

The ending is touching, epic and totally sad to me. Kudos to Miller.

Is this a good "MAD MAX" movie? I don't know. Maybe not.
Is this a good "MAD MAX WORLD" movie? Yes. It's excellent. It's superb. It's thrilling.


Please, if someone can list all the things Max made in the final chase scene, that would help me a lot, since I wanna rewatch the movie within days and I wanna pay attention to the list. Thank you.

[DGSimo]

Uh. I mean he drives the fuel tanker in front of the entire armada for devastating effect and then fights his way from the back of the Doof Wagon against various Imperators and Coma and Nux.

Although the best scene for Max is after all that carnage when he owns his name again and becomes not a shell of man but what he once was before the chaos, choosing to be a "blood bag" again to save someone who came to respect and care for, to be the man Max Rockatansky. Such a fantastic scene.

[Uncle Entity]

Uh. I mean he drives the fuel tanker in front of the entire armada for devastating effect and then fights his way from the back of the Doof Wagon against various Imperators and Coma and Nux.

Although the best scene for Max is after all that carnage when he owns his name again and becomes not a shell of man but what he once was before the chaos, choosing to be a "blood bag" again to save someone who came to respect and care for, to be the man Max Rockatansky. Such a fantastic scene.

I agree. Too bad he spelt his name in the opening.

[Uncle Entity]

As simple as that: Max kills more "important" guys in TRW, while in Fury Road he helps and fights, okay, but he has no important "killing" or pivotal killing scene during the final battle. Which is weird as hell!

Follow me.

In TRW he kills the guy driving the car with an huge shotgun blow up, one of the most memorable sequences of the movie.
Then he indirectly kills Wez and Humungus in one huge crash.

In Fury Road?
He doesn't kill Rictus Erectus.
He doesn't kill Immortan Joe.
He seems just be in there, helping and fighting back.

I found this disappointing.

He's still the co-protagonist along with Furiosa, but something doesn't work.

[blackmocco]

Uncle, I don't really get what's bothering you. It seems like you're just looking for something to pick at. If you didn't think Furiosa dispatching Immortan Joe to Valhalla was worthy of your attention, I don't know what to tell you. At the three screenings I've attended so far, the audience lost their shit at that moment. The story is Furiosa's. She sets the plot in motion but that doesn't mean it's not a Mad Max movie. If you need someone here to point out to you what Max does to further the plot, I wonder if you've even seen the movie. He drives the rig, kills a bunch of villains, protects the Rig and the Wives at every opportunity he can, kills the Bullet Farmer, is more or less responsible for killing the People Eater, saves Furiosa's life, and delivers the wives, Furiosa and new hope to an entire civilization and manages to reestablish at least a smidgen of his humanity in the process. If you really prefer how Road Warrior went, then I suggest you go and put it in the DVD player. It's not going anywhere. Maybe you just don't like FR. That's okay too. You don't have to force yourself. I warned everyone on here it wasn't going to be for everyone.

[Uncle Entity]

Mocco,

Don't get me wrong. I love the movie. I'm gonna rewatch it today or tomorrow.

[MadMatt]

I think Max did plenty and in more real way, he just cant do it all and I love how damaged and alone he was! I really felt sorry for him and that really surprised me that I got that emotion from the movie! Its and everybody work together movie than just let him do it all and the chicks just hide someware. Its not the 80's anymore. It was great he was constantly actually fighting the demons of his past! Unlike the Road Warrior, ware he was just a confident bad ass.

[themanw/oaname]

funny story,

none of these movies are specifically about max.

[scfc68]

Hey, it more than made up for BTD's chase

I need to see it again myself as there was almost too much to take in at times

If I wanted to be picky, I could say maybe too many characters particularly on the good side fighting at the end. Made it a bit hard to follow at times.

I think they showed too much in the trailers as well especially the warrig crashing, max on the poles.

Still not sure if I liked the guitar guy or not; if he'd had some nasty costume maybe but that red thing made him look like noddy!

[Nightwalker]

Still not sure if I liked the guitar guy or not; if he'd had some nasty costume maybe but that red thing made him look like noddy!

His guitar was also his weapon. But he would not really fight much from his position, would he. That max managed to get up to him had probably surprised him. As far as I can remember it was not much of a fight.
So he just wears a comfortable suit in witch he can easily play his guitar an be the moral officer he's supposed to be