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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

“Fury is born.”

7.5
2024
2h 29m
ActionScience FictionAdventure
Director: George Miller

Overview

As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

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The Odyssey of Dust and Sorrow

If *Mad Max: Fury Road* was a singular, breathless sprint—a heart attack sustained for two hours—then *Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga* is the long, arduous recovery that explains why the heart was broken in the first place. George Miller returns to the Wasteland not to repeat the adrenaline trick of 2015, but to engage in something riskier, older, and far more difficult: myth-making. Where its predecessor was a chase, *Furiosa* is a history, unfolding in chapters that feel less like action movie set pieces and more like stanzas in a tragic poem.

Miller’s visual language here shifts from the kinetic to the operatic. The cinematography, handled by Simon Duggan, trades the gritty, palpable swelter of *Fury Road* for something slightly more digital, painterly, and hyper-real. This has alienated some, but it serves a specific narrative function: we are watching a legend being told, perhaps by a History Man, where the edges of reality are blurred by the haze of memory. The action sequences, particularly the "Stowaway" chapter involving an aerial assault on a War Rig, are constructed with a geometric precision that is almost terrifying. Yet, the camera lingers longer here, allowing us to see the machinery of war not just as cool vehicles, but as the iron cages in which these characters are trapped.

At the center of this metallic storm is a silence that screams. Anya Taylor-Joy, inheriting the role from Charlize Theron, delivers a performance of striking interiority. She speaks rarely, her dialogue rationed like water in the desert. Instead, the film relies on her eyes—huge, furious pools that reflect a world burning down around her. Her Furiosa is not yet the hardened general we know; she is a wound trying to heal itself with violence. The physical toll of the Wasteland is etched into her, culminating in the gruesome, inevitable loss of her arm—a moment Miller handles not as a shock tactic, but as a sombre spiritual severance from her past life.

The film’s true stroke of brilliance, however, lies in its antagonist. Chris Hemsworth’s Dementus is a villain for the ages—a warlord who rules not with the cold, corporate efficiency of Immortan Joe, but with the chaotic insecurity of a cult leader who knows he’s a fraud. Dementus is a man hollowed out by the apocalypse, filling the void with noise, cruelty, and a pathetic red cape. He is the loud, thrashing counterpoint to Furiosa’s silent determination. Their relationship is the film’s twisted heart; Dementus is not just her captor, but a dark mirror showing what happens when you let the Wasteland strip away your dignity.

The central tragedy of *Furiosa* is encoded in a peach pit—a tiny, organic talisman of the "Green Place" that Furiosa carries in her mouth, terrified to swallow. It is a metaphor for hope that is both beautiful and utterly useless in a world of salt and chrome. Miller seems to be asking: what is the cost of keeping a soul alive in hell?

*Furiosa* may lack the relentless velocity of *Fury Road*, but it replaces it with a heavy, novelistic depth. It is a sprawling, imperfect, and magnificent beast of a film that refuses to treat its audience as mere consumers of explosions. It demands patience, and in return, it offers a vision of human endurance that is as exhausting as it is essential.

Clips (10)

Beyond Vengeance

What Really Happened To Dementus?

Young Furiosa Gets Kidnapped By Sand Bikers

Furiosa Is Traded To Immortan Joe

Furiosa Meets Dementus

Dementus Demands a Meeting of the Warlords

Dementus Arrives at The Citadel

Dementus Invades Gas Town

Furiosa and Dementus Shootout

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Featurettes (6)

'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' with Chris Hemsworth & George Miller | Academy Conversations

Canada enters the WASTELAND! ☠️🔥

Official IMAX® Interview

Director on Director | In Conversation with George Miller & Bong Joon Ho

Mural Reveal

UK Premiere Highlights

Behind the Scenes (8)

Behind the Scenes - Chris Hemsworth as Dementus

Behind the Scenes - Metal Beasts & Holy Motors

Behind the Scenes of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - Stowaway

Dangerously Demented Featurette

Becoming Furiosa Featurette

Motorbike Messiah Featurette

Darkest Angel Featurette

Motor Beasts Featurette

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