Rating: Overflowing

Genre: Action, Post-Apocalypse

Studios: Warner Bros/Kennedy Miller Mitchell

Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke and Alyla Browne

Director: George Miller

Writers: Nico Lathouris and George Miller

Based on: the characters by George Miller

Producers: George Miller and Doug Mitchell

Music by: Tom Holkenborg

Rated: R for sequences of strong violence, and grisly images

Release Date: 05/24/24

Runtime: 2h 28m

Tagline: Fury is born

Favorite Character: Furiosa

Quote: “That is the Dark Angel, the 5th horseman of the apocalypse.”- The History Man

Fun Fact: Anya Taylor-Joy didn’t have a drivers license while shooting, despite doing a car stunt.

The Review: Some of us didn’t notice, but Clint Eastwood is 94 years old and is still directing movies, and has an upcoming movie ‘Juror No. 2’ This man just doesn’t know the definition of ‘Retirement.’ Australian film mastermind George Miller is kinda like that. He’s 79 and and still has plenty of Wasteland stories to tell. I mean come on, he should be the ONLY one behind the camera of the Mad Max franchise. No other director. Not even Spielberg.

This badass female origin story is the only Mad Max movie I have seen so far. And it’s really pathetic that I haven’t even seen any Miller films with Max Rocktansky, an action character with cinema’s most awesome name (next to Gladiator’s Maximus). I know. Sad. Regardless, It is such a blessing to have Furiosa be the first of the Mad Max franchise for me to see.

Once the metal Warner Bros logo shows up on the screen, your mind is gonna be like ‘Gentlemen, start your engine!’ matching with a vrooming sound on the screen. If you have seen Fury Road, you might remember Charlize Theron explaining to Max as well as the audience of her origins. She once lived in a last remaining earth like area in Australia (and probably on earth) Green Place (Alyla Browne) getting kidnapped and taken to the camp of the mighty Dementus, Chris Hemsworth’s baddie that doesn’t include the mighty Norse mythological hammer. I also should let you know that Furiosa is split into five chapters throughout the movie.

The journey throughout the movie eventually leads to Fury Road’s Furiosa growing up in the fortress from the previous entry and she is being more fury working for the returning but younger and more fit antagonist Immortan Joe (only this one was portrayed by Lachy Hulme). Also returning was the insane chalked covered soldiers! And that was the first half of the movie, which has a well paced narrative with Browne turning into Taylor-Joy. Some of you may think that that half is slow, which I doubt that you’ll think of that, I don’t. Then we go into the second half that’s full of dynamic energy and the fast and furious action and stunts. That one truck chase scene that took 78 days is truly a wild ride!

Prequels can be unneeded some times. Prequels can be unwanted often times. But when Prequel stands out to all of the other prequels out there, especially when it takes place in a post-apocalyptic world that easily sucks us into it. Oh what a movie! What a lovely movie!