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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 28 m
- 2024
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 28 m
Summary As 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...
Directed By: George Miller
Written By: George Miller, Nick Lathouris
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 28 m
- 2024
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 28 m
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
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7.2
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Summary As 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...
Directed By: George Miller
Written By: George Miller, Nick Lathouris
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 62 Critic Reviews
79
82% Positive
51 Reviews
51 Reviews
16% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 62 Critic Reviews
79
82% Positive
51 Reviews
51 Reviews
16% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 185 User Ratings
7.2
77% Positive
142 Ratings
142 Ratings
8% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
16% Negative
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 185 User Ratings
7.2
77% Positive
142 Ratings
142 Ratings
8% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
16% Negative
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
Absolutely legendary. Nowhere near the level of Fury Road, but a worthy prequel nevertheless, and an impressive entry in the Mad Max universe. The performances were awesome, with Anya Taylor Joy delivering a nuanced and intense depiction, and Chris Hemsworth's career best by a wide margin.
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Best wasteland movie yet - with or without Mad Max. I was critical about the casting and the first images, but ATJ delivers a gripping and believable performance, and the craftsmanship is as masterful and cinematic as expected. Every facet added to the worldbuilding of this wasteland just keeps making it richer. Hoping for more.
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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.
This truly is what a summer movie looks like — and yes, feels like.
Is the movie fun? Well, Furiosa’s story doesn’t really welcome that word. It’s gripping, even when it’s a bit of a trudge. Miller’s a visual genius. And a pile-driver. He’s also an adult, with a mature master filmmaker’s sensibility and serious intentions to go with his eternal-adolescent love of speed and noise.
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.
It’s awful. But it could be where movies are going — into a wasteland.
10!!!!!!! My god and that is exactly how you make a Mad Max movie! See this in IMAX and enjoy the ride. Perfectly executed and fantastic saga story from Fury Road!!! Anyone who loves Fury Road will watch this and say 'Both movies compliment each other perfectly!" They don't make movies like this anymore and to see this work of art was so refreshing! The imagination alone of the world he creates for these two movies is mind boggling!!!
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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.
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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.
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