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Furiosa<\/strong>: A Mad Max Saga<\/strong> (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Warner Bros.\/Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 148 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (sequences of strong violence and grisly images)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: George Miller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: George Miller and Nico Lathouris\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Tom Holkenborg\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Simon Duggan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 24, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Alyla Browne, George Shevtsov, Lachy Hulme, John Howard, Angus Sampson, Charlee Fraser, Elsa Pataky, Nathan Jones, Josh Helman, David Field, Rachel Romahn, David Collins, Goran Kleut, CJ Bloomfield, Matuse, Ian Roberts, Guy Spense, Robert Jones.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: ** \u00bd<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I\u2019m in the minority of moviegoers who think Mad Max: Fury Road is highly overrated. To me, it was more exhausting than entertaining. It didn\u2019t help that I unwisely chose to see it in 3D. I felt absolutely drained as I staggered out of the theater.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The critical and commercial success of Fury Road, along with the six Oscars it took home, made a follow-up film a certainty. It took nine years, but the next chapter in the saga has finally roared into theaters. Furiosa<\/strong>: A Mad Max Saga<\/strong> is a prequel to Fury Road. It centers on Imperator Furiosa, the heroine played by Charlize Theron in the 2015 film. Here, she\u2019s played by Alyla Browne (Sting) as a child and Anya Taylor-Joy (Split) as a young adult. It\u2019s an origin flick. We find out how she became the bad ass who took the wheel from Max Rockatansky and put him in the passenger seat.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Divided into chapters, Furiosa<\/strong>: A Mad Max Saga<\/strong> traces its heroine\u2019s evolution from scared child to fierce road warrior. It all starts when she\u2019s taken from her home (aka \u201cThe Green Place of Many Mothers\u201d) by members of a vicious biker gang led by Dementus (Hemsworth, Thor). He basically wants to rule the post-apocalyptic world by taking control over every precious resource- i.e. water, gasoline and ammunition. His plan is to ignite a war between tribes. All the while, Furiosa bides her time, waiting for the right time to avenge her mother who was killed by Dementus right in front of her.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0That, in a nutshell, is the plot of Furiosa<\/strong>: A Mad Max Saga<\/strong>. If it doesn\u2019t sound like much, that\u2019s only because it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s really nothing more than a thread tying together the many action set-pieces. As you know, that\u2019s really the point of the latest Mad Max movies and while they are pretty good, one can\u2019t help but be put off by the massive overuse of CGI. It takes a lot away from the experience. I remember being awed by the climactic car chase in The Road Warrior. It still blows me away with all the practical stunt work. In Furiosa<\/strong>: A Mad Max Saga<\/strong>, it\u2019s all done with computers and green screen. The action is still fun to watch, but it\u2019s hardly awesome.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I didn\u2019t dislike Furiosa<\/strong>: A Mad Max Saga<\/strong>, but I didn\u2019t love it either. I might like it slightly more than Fury Road, but only because it didn\u2019t leave me feeling like the victim of ASA (Aggravated Sensory Assault). It\u2019s chaotic. It has no real plot of which to speak. It runs about 30 minutes too long. At the same time, George Miller (he directed ALL the Mad Max movies) knows how to put together a decent action flick which is what Furiosa<\/strong>: A Mad Max Saga<\/strong> basically is or would be if not for the mammoth budget ($168M). WTH?! All that money and it doesn\u2019t look nearly as cool as the OG Mad Max (made for about $400K) and the sequel ($4.5M). Miller knew how to keep it tight then as well with respective running times of 93 and 96 minutes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0It goes without saying that Max is largely unseen in Furiosa<\/strong>: A Mad Max Saga<\/strong> save for a brief glimpse of his character watching the events unfold from a distance. In his place, we get a bloke named Praetorian Jack (Burke, BBC\u2019s The Musketeers) who\u2019s kind of like Max. He dresses like him, talks like him and drives like him. He is Furiosa\u2019s mentor after she escapes from her keepers (at this point, Immortan Joe and his gang). He\u2019s fine, but he\u2019s no Mel Gibson. Joy is pretty good as Furiosa and so is Browne for that matter. She\u2019s believable as a pissed off girl who has to fight her way through life. Hemsworth hams it up mightily as Dementus, a Shakespeare-esque bad guy who\u2019s equal parts vicious and tragic.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I\u2019m writing this review a few days after the fact which means I\u2019m fully aware of its disappointing box office take. Furiosa<\/strong>: A Mad Max Saga<\/strong> grossed about $32M over the four-day holiday weekend which falls well below the $40-45M insiders predicted. I had a feeling this would be the case. When I ordered my ticket for the Saturday matinee showing the previous Monday, the theater was empty. It was still less than half full come showtime. With this, I think we\u2019ve seen the last of Max, Furiosa and the rest of the gang. For now, anyway.<\/p>\r\n Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Warner Bros.\/Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 148 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (sequences of strong violence and grisly images)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: George Miller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: George Miller and Nico Lathouris\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Tom Holkenborg\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Simon Duggan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 24, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Alyla Browne, George Shevtsov, Lachy Hulme, John […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-adventure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Furiosa-A-Mad-Max-Saga-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Furiosa-A-Mad-Max-Saga-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C775&ssl=1\")
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