Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Writen by Per Gunnar Jonsson on October 27, 2024

I do not know if I expected another woke Hollywood turd and therefore was really positively surprised or if the movie is just really good but, to me, this is a really good movie. I had heard rumblings about it being bad but, again too me, that is just not true. It is also claimed that it didn’t do as well as expected at the box office but then this is oftentimes clueless Hollywood bean counters with unrealistic and overinflated expectations causing this. This is the kind of action filled, crazy and fairly violent movie that you would expect from a Mad Max movie. The action is good, the characters are good, the settings are good (the Bullet Farm was mostly a whole in the ground and a bit underwhelming though), and the story is actually not bad at all. Also, there is no woke, far left preaching that I could notice in the movie which in todays world is a great plus. Overall I really liked the movie and its two and a half hour run length did not really feel too long. If I should complain about something it would be that they just skipped over the war between Dementus and Immortan Joe with some bla bla about humans always having fought wars. The movie also felt a bit “sanitized”, that is lacking grittiness and gore, for being a Mad Max movie. The R rating that it apparently got in the US is pretty ridiculous. In France it got a 13+ rating. However, that is minor nitpicking.