Furiosa (2024)

I was skeptical about this one. Not only was I not impressed with the character in Fury Road, but 2.5 hours long? Sheesh. Theaters booted it quickly for some damn reason, so it's probably rubbish, right?

Honestly... it was pretty damn good. The wasteland has never looked better. A visual feast with loads of action that somehow doesn't get boring. Seriously, how can a movie about constant car chases stay entertaining? I don't know, but it does.

I was surprised that Anya Taylor-Joy doesn't appear until about an hour in. That only leaves her with a mere 90 minutes of screentime. Gay. But she teams up with some Max-knockoff who looks like Stacy Keach. He's even got the lip thing going. There's a lot of connection to Fury Road with the citadel and Immortan Joe, but the timeline is still bogus. George Miller doesn't care much for the chronology and timeline of the movies, so why should we?

Since we're at that point where we've had one spin-off, I'm guessing this is intended to spawn a universe of endless dystopian car and desert hijinks. Low performance here indicates otherwise, so will the Mad Max universe fade away when George Miller does?

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