Cinebuffs Recommends.
The bastard love child of Aladdin and The Fountain.
Well, to say this polarises audiences is an understatement. Even within my peer group, you have bad-tempered gruffness and gushing praise in equal measure for George Miller's somewhat overt flexing here.
This is usually a sign of individual perception of a project that offers so much, so differently, to so many. Critical reviews are often pointless at the best of times, and this is an example why - you will end having an entirely different experience with this than the person sitting next to you, so to explain something so personal, so uniquely yours, becomes something of a moot point.
The performances are excellent, something I believe we we can all agree on, and the direction is affluent and exuberantly polished. Beyond that, well, I may not know much about art, but I know what I like. And I really, really like this.