Yeah, the cinematography was vivid, and the action was fast, making up for the lack of dialog. Not that the dialog was bad, but it is a post-apocalyptic world...and fans of verbose scripts aren't the target audience.
While the movie stands alone, and really has no ties to the original (which I really liked), the second (which was pretty good), or the third (pandering to the franchise) I did appreciate some of the not so obvious nods to those movies.