Furiosa

Fury Road got a lot of praise for its amazing action scenes, given that the practical effects were fantastic and the CGI blended into the scenes perfectly. Despite that, I didn’t really care about the characters. The Mad Max saga was never something I got super excited about. Tom Hardy is cool in almost everything he does, but this series just doesn’t make me want to run to a theater.

Furiosa was more of the same, but with significantly more CGI. The story centers around a post-apocalyptic wasteland (my favorite storytelling environment), with three major strongholds maintaining diplomatic ties and a cold-war-like understanding with each other. We’re introduced to a tame-psychotic leader of the gasoline stronghold, who travels the desert and conquers any faction he encounters. He eventually challenges the leader of the food/water stronghold and realizes he chose poorly.

The movie mainly focuses on our, 100 pounds when soaking wet Anya Taylor-Joy, heroine fighting countless men that are typically three times her size. She also spends her childhood fixing machines like a seasoned veteran, and performing acrobatics with seemingly zero fear. I’m not a fan of this actress, so there were very few scenes that were engaging or somewhat believable. Sure, the movie takes place in a fantasy future, but a viewer can only suspend disbelief for so long. On the Fast & Furious scale, this one hits a solid FF7 for plausibility. Not quite FF10 since there are no cars fighting dinosaurs in space.

If Mad Max: Fury Road gets four stars, this one is a solid 3. It tells the story that no one wanted, but does it in a way that would make fans of the previous movie content. See it if it’s free.


Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Furiosa

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