With the full-throttle energy and pacing that fueled Mad Max: Fury Road, Furiosa blazes through its 2.5-hour runtime to give us the kind of breath-taking epic we have long awaited.
The action sequences are simply spectacular, from the picture & sound editing to all the little intense choreographed moments sprinkled in like Furiosa tilting her gun to look at it after she pulls the trigger on empty. There ARE some moments with noticeable CGI or green screen, which is a problem that Fury Road did not have (it used some but it was never noticeable).
I was excited to hear the "Brothers in Arms" track make a return briefly from Junkie XL (Tom Holkenborg), but tbh his score here is not as good as it was for Fury Road.
Anya Taylor Joy does a marvelous job, especially as the film goes on. The child actor Alyla Brown nails the Furiosa look and more than earns her role with the performance she gives. Child actors are just on another level nowadays. I don't think audiences appreciate just how terrible kids acting used to be in movies lol.
Chris Hemsworth's Dementus is wonderfully over the top and he does a fine job hitting his marks, with solid delivery and, more importantly, no cringe. :) It is also balanced well with the seriousness of the fabulous performance from Lachy Hulme as Immortan Joe (RIP Hugh Keays-Byrne). Tom Burke-who is not Bam Margera as my friend led me to believe during the film-I do wish more was done with this character and his influence on Furiosa.
On that note, the story does leave you feeling like wanting more, as it is very clearly an origin story. And this is not something I was ever left feeling after the first one. It's not that I expected more story... I really didn't. It's just the way the film introduces these compelling threads then doesn't follow any of them.
I remember reading about how for Fury Road, George Miller kept these elaborate profiles for each and every character, no matter how big or small to the story, to keep them genuine in the actors' minds and creating this thoroughly thought-out fictional world of the Wasteland. Perhaps that richness is best left in between the lines here as well, as it's tough to say it would have been advisable to mess with his impeccable pacing-the film's greatest strength.
With the bar being set at perfection, Furiosa is still a great action film and worthy prequel to Fury Road. There is a LOT to love about this product of master craftsmanship from the uniquely talented & visionary George Miller.
The action sequences are simply spectacular, from the picture & sound editing to all the little intense choreographed moments sprinkled in like Furiosa tilting her gun to look at it after she pulls the trigger on empty. There ARE some moments with noticeable CGI or green screen, which is a problem that Fury Road did not have (it used some but it was never noticeable).
I was excited to hear the "Brothers in Arms" track make a return briefly from Junkie XL (Tom Holkenborg), but tbh his score here is not as good as it was for Fury Road.
Anya Taylor Joy does a marvelous job, especially as the film goes on. The child actor Alyla Brown nails the Furiosa look and more than earns her role with the performance she gives. Child actors are just on another level nowadays. I don't think audiences appreciate just how terrible kids acting used to be in movies lol.
Chris Hemsworth's Dementus is wonderfully over the top and he does a fine job hitting his marks, with solid delivery and, more importantly, no cringe. :) It is also balanced well with the seriousness of the fabulous performance from Lachy Hulme as Immortan Joe (RIP Hugh Keays-Byrne). Tom Burke-who is not Bam Margera as my friend led me to believe during the film-I do wish more was done with this character and his influence on Furiosa.
On that note, the story does leave you feeling like wanting more, as it is very clearly an origin story. And this is not something I was ever left feeling after the first one. It's not that I expected more story... I really didn't. It's just the way the film introduces these compelling threads then doesn't follow any of them.
I remember reading about how for Fury Road, George Miller kept these elaborate profiles for each and every character, no matter how big or small to the story, to keep them genuine in the actors' minds and creating this thoroughly thought-out fictional world of the Wasteland. Perhaps that richness is best left in between the lines here as well, as it's tough to say it would have been advisable to mess with his impeccable pacing-the film's greatest strength.
With the bar being set at perfection, Furiosa is still a great action film and worthy prequel to Fury Road. There is a LOT to love about this product of master craftsmanship from the uniquely talented & visionary George Miller.
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