I wonder why they decided to make Max not look like Tom Hardy. I guess it's this whole idea that Max is a "legend of the wasteland" ... which frees the film-makers from following any set timeline.
My problem is that I like the way Tom Hardy looks (and even a young Mel Gibson) a helluva lot better than this Mad Max character model.
It probably costs too much to use the character likeness. I worked on a couple movie games and our artists actually had to make some of the characters look less like the actors so the publisher doesn't need to pay all the actors...