10 Flaws Which Prevented Max: Fury Road From Being Perfect

10. Clichéd News Reports Opening Montage

Given that it's thirty years since audiences last got to see Max Rockatansky on the big screen it comes as no surprise that Mad Max: Fury Road needs to establish the universe in which it is set, perhaps as much for fans of the original trilogy as for newcomers to the franchise. George Miller takes the tried and trusted route of using a mixed selection of news reports explaining "resource wars" while throwing in a stock footage shot of trees blasted in the winds of an atomic bomb explosion - it's a cliched approach to establishing the setting which has become completely overused in recent years (the Batman V Superman trailer was just the latest in a long line of movies which used this device). Miller did a similar thing in the opening of Mad Max 2, so perhaps it could be considered as something of an Easter egg nodding back to his earlier works, but given that the film does such a good job of avoiding clunky exposition and allowing the action to drive the plot, surely the audience could have figured out what had come before simply through watching the film.