SummaryAs the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland they come across the Citadel presided over by the Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she put...
SummaryAs the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland they come across the Citadel presided over by the Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she put...
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is not likely to make the same rounds at the Academy Awards as its predecessor. But it remains a winning formula. And when someone tells you that it has the best action sequences put to film—believe them.
It’s hard to overstate how immaculately crafted Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is, both as a prequel to Max Max: Fury Road and as a stand-alone story of how the Wasteland created a powerful character.
I have never taken substances, but I imagine this is what being high af feels like. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is one of the greatest films ever made, that left such a significant cultural impact kudos to its unapologetic uniqueness, it's as if the franchise had created its own sub-genre in action filmmaking, and I'm happy to say that Furiosa is a more than worthy successor to its **** me, action filmmaking is like a relationship. One between the audience and the director. At the start of an action sequence, the director invites you to surrender yourself and embark on a journey—a journey greater than yourself, where you feel insignificant and minuscule. It takes a lot of courage for us egotistic beings to conciously surrender ourselves to that kind of control, and for that, you need to trust you're in good hands, and there's no safer pair than George Miller's.Only George Miller could craft such a viceral cinematic experience, which is yet so profound. You'll pay for the full seat, but you'll only need the edge of it. Every frame of this film pulsates with adrenaline. The action sequences and camera choreography are so innovative, they defy belief, making you wonder how a group of humans could achieve such imagery.Furiosa is undoubtedly one of the best films of the year. Any amount of money you spend on this is worth it. If possible, experience it in IMAX to fully immerse yourself in its grandeur.
This is an incredible movie. Great action, performances, editing and effects. Yes, it has more obvious use of CGi than Fury Road. No, I do not care. When narrative drives the action and that action is easy to follow due to incredible shot planning and execution, I won’t be spending my time pixel counting. I will be immersed.
More than its predecessors dating back to 1979’s lean, brutal “Mad Max,” “Furiosa” highlights the silliness and savagery of toxic men playing “Lord of the Flies” in the rubble of humanity.
If it lacks the narrative compression and nonstop forward motion of Fury Road, Furiosa never skimps on the other main features one comes to a Mad Max movie for: deranged production design and thrilling action.
With Furiosa, however, [Miller] chooses to follow the playbook he penned less than a decade ago. Consequently, the results are—for better and worse—only as epic as you’d expect.
While 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' is highly entertaining, it fails to capture the chrome-painted perfection of 'Mad Max: Fury Road.' Instead, we end up with a bloated epic that focuses too much on world building and not enough on its titular character.
I have a soft-spot for the Mad Max films, given how unique they are.
But Furiosa just isn't great.
Don't get me wrong. It's a competent film.
The action is decent. And I give credit for doing actual world-building. You get more sense of the actual "Wasteland".
But unfortunately the movie is just too long. All acts are overindulgent, being 30% longer than they should be. It stretches the film to an exhausting length.
The action also doesn't match the grit and tenacity of Mad Max. You can clearly see the blue-screen / volume in 50% of shots.
The plot is too bloated and the narrative equally uncompelling. It streches over too long a time period and fails to create actual tension. A tigher script and a more focused narrative would have made an overall better movie.
Bummer.
Exploding into theaters this Memorial Day weekend comes an action thriller from the familiar Mad Max franchise. Written and directed by George Miller, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a prequel to the previous film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). This film mainly follows the beginning and epic revenge quest of Furiosa (played by in this film Anya Taylor-Joy, previously by Charlize Theron). At the beginning of the movie, we see Furiosa abducted by bandits/marauders under the control of a warlord/wild-man Dementus (played by Chris Hemsworth). After Furiosa’s mother pursues across the desert, Furiosa’s mother is killed at the hands of Dementus thus starting off Furiosa’s fiery revenge tale. Left to her own devices and wits, Furiosa must travel through the wasteland, make allies along the way, and hunt down Dementus to the ends of the earth. One of such allies is played by Tom Burke, a “Praetorian” who helps Furiosa sharpen her skills. A classic revenge story no doubt.
For a prequel movie, this story does a better job showing the wasteland world than the previous film. Granted, a good portion of the film takes place in between one of three locations (The Citadel, Gas Town, and Bullet Town). However, being able to see these locations has helped me visualize what the rest of the wasteland looks like outside the Fury Road. The visualization and cinematography in this film helped the film tremendously. All the crazy and madness is captured on film with detail along with the vast desert background. Having the story take place in the desert shows the hopelessness of the situation and the production crew did a great job capturing that.Anya Taylor-Joy doesn’t have many speaking lines, but her vengeful intensity is more-so communicated through her eyes and focus during the action sequences. Chris Hemsworth as a villain may come off as intense, perhaps not in a good way; however, for a Mad Max film, his character works within the story. Tom Burke’s character shows up halfway through and comes off as an intriguing character. Not so much as a love-interest (at least not that I can tell), but as a mentor and later as an equal.
Quite the tale to behold; however, I would be lying if I said I have never seen a story like this before. Being that this film is also a prequel it was difficult for me to absorb myself into the story and not predict an outcome ahead of time. Yes, same stories can be retold using the latest technologies and story tactics; however, I confess I don’t see a variation in the formula. The runtime of two hours and twenty-eight minutes (exactly) was too long in my opinion. A few scenes could’ve been cut down, especially in the introduction scenes. Almost makes this movie tamed compared Fury Road. Some parts of this movie slowed way to far down compared to the non-stop intensity of Fury Road. Overall, the well-done production and good acting will drive this movie forward. Dragging this movie back is the direction of the story and long runtime.
Boring story, bad character development, and drawn out scenes that we're just unnecessary to include. I was really excited for this movie, and wanted it to be great! I loved Fury Road and thought it was one of the best action movies of our decade. I cannot say the same about Furiosa. The movie glosses over all the cool lore of the mad max universe, and instead just focuses on having a thousand close up shots of furiosa with all her makeup on. It whole movie seems more of just a cameo for Taylor-Joy and Hemsworth. and my god, the character Chris hemsworth plays is so bad, its laughable. It was an about 1 1/2 hours too long, and the action / CG was lazy and bad. The dogs were all animated in the movie! like... why?? even when they had some basic shot of them drinking water in their bowls. Just another example of how disappointing this experience was.