I essentially concur. This was a good, not great movie. It had big shoes to fill, and it didn’t, but even in falling short of Fury Road it is still better than 90% of movies.

Hemsworth as a goober failure of a villain was great. From the trailers I was very concerned that the movie was going to try and make him as big and scary as Immortan Joe. I am very happy the movie was smart enough to go another way.

Anya Taylor-Joy was for the most part great. She doesn’t have the physical build that Theron did in Fury Road. For the most part in this movie she had long hair and was wearing baggy or thick clothes, which disguised it. I think only in the ending where her hair was shaved and she was wearing a short sleeve top did it become distractedly apparent that she wasn’t on Theron’s level of gainz.

The pacing was strange, especially with the chapter title cards, which were frequent in the first half and then sort of disappeared as the move went on. I’m still not sure who the narrator was either. I think it was the old man with all the tattoos but am unsure.

Either way, worth watching. Unlike Fury Road, I don’t think watching on the big screen enhanced it in any way though. I will surely rewatch this movie at home at some point.