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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - Movie Review

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - Movie Review Critics Score - 8 of 10 General Audience Score - 8 of 10 George Miller is a director that has a pretty varied filmography, from doing several children’s films including the animated Happy Feet movies to adult dramas like Lorenzo’s Oil. But the genre he has leaned into the most throughout his long career has to be action and adventure, from which he has given us the Mad Max series, for which he’ll no doubt be most remembered. While the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road was undoubtedly his pinnacle achievement in the series, Miller continues the world building of the story he reignited with the new film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. I’ll refer to it as Furiosa for simplicity sake going forward. The film stars Anya-Taylor Joy reprising Charlize Theron’s Furiosa character from the 2015 film and Chris Hemsworth stars as the dull-witted yet still politically savvy antagonist, Dementus. This film, as was its predecessor, is impeccably well crafted, excels on a tec