I was voter this year and I couldn't stand Mad Max, finding it somewhat unwatchable. I think the movie couldn't decide what it was and dabbled in every predictable plot device across several genres. So much of it looked ridiculous and was borderline fantasy then it was suddenly a super powerful driven character piece. It was tense, yes, but the movie is full of hidden subs that you can't hear but can feel to fake tension.

This was Michael Bay making Revenant in the desert with cars.

Also, calling it a master class in all those fields, which is laughable when you compare it to a number of films this year, and crediting the director for it is neglecting all the people who made that work happen. The cinematography was all over the place, the editing was jumpy, the sound was over tuned, the action was out of an 80's thriller (they actually cut frames from scenes to make it seem faster, not speed it up, cut frames) and the narrative was a joke, let's go this way, then let's go back, were rescuing a girl, oh she's dead, oh well... then the arm, the predictable use of the arm for the over the top death ala Chinatown.

This is all because a 70 year old deserves credit for what he did for film, which he does, but this is some kind of out of control "make a wish" or something. Between him and Ridley this year, this content is safe and done poorly. At least the Martian is rewatchable.

This movie is a clusterfuck and because the right people signed off on it, no one has done it quite like this, and this is was an extremely slow year for action films it is being hailed as brilliant.

At least this is a field where you can be misunderstood and still be thought to be a genius.