Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Review

“The One Where Revenge, Sandstorms, and Thor Energy Collide.”

🎬 Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers, shall we?

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⚠️ CONTENT WARNING

This movie has: violence, gore, cannibalism, kidnapping, warlords, torture, limb loss, explosions, and basically everything expected from a Mad Max film except the world physically slapping you across the face.

Not for the faint of heart — but if you’re a Fury Road fan, this is your playground.

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NON-SPOILER PLOT OVERVIEW 🍿

Furiosa is a revenge-driven odyssey following young Furiosa (Alyla Browne → Anya Taylor-Joy) as she’s ripped from her home and thrown into the wasteland’s meat grinder. The story spans YEARS — showing her capture, enslavement, survival, training, and slow transformation into the angry, buzz-cut legend we meet in Fury Road.

If Fury Road was a two-hour car chase, Furiosa is the mythbook behind the woman who drove it.

The movie is epic, grimy, violent, weird, theatrical, and absolutely George Miller being George Miller.

Your rating stands: 8/10
Very good. Loved parts of it.
Didn’t hit Dune or Game of Thrones emotional devotion levels for you — but it’s still extremely fun and extremely competent filmmaking.

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CHARACTER RUNDOWN 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy / Alyla Browne)

Silent, calculated, cold-burning. Anya doesn’t say much, but her eyes say EVERYTHING. This version of Furiosa is younger, angrier, more desperate — you believe every second of her rage arc.

Dementus (Chris Hemsworth)

Chris is great.
But yes — he STILL drips Thor energy no matter what he does.
Even in the wasteland with a nose prosthetic and a motorcycle chariot, he still has that “I’m a chaotic Asgardian uncle” vibe. Fun villain though.

Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme)

One of your favorite villains ever, and the recast is shockingly seamless.
Hulme absolutely NAILED Hugh Keays-Byrne’s voice, posture, and mannerisms. You could barely tell the actor changed — he melted right into the role like he’s been Joe his whole life.

Praetorian Jack (Tom Burke)

The mysterious, stoic mentor figure.
Basically “What if Max but quieter, cleaner, and emotionally available?”
Great dynamic with Furiosa.

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PACING & STRUCTURE ⏳

This story is broken into chapters, each with a totally different tone.
Some chapters are perfect.
Some drag.
Some feel like George Miller smacked the war drum too hard.

But overall? The movie MOVES.
It’s not as relentless as Fury Road, but it was never supposed to be.

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PROS 👍

• Anya Taylor-Joy = phenomenal without needing words
• Immortan Joe recast is shockingly perfect
• Some of the best vehicle mayhem in years
• Chris Hemsworth being a chaos gremlin
• Furiosa’s origin actually feels earned
• The worldbuilding is insane in the best way
• The “what Max was doing during this era” references are subtle and satisfying

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CONS 👎

• You enjoyed it, but didn’t LOVE it
• Not as emotionally gripping as Dune or GOT
• Some chapters drag
• You can still see Thor hiding under Dementus’s wig lmao

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FINAL THOUGHTS 💭

Furiosa is a blast — a brutal, sunburnt, gasoline-soaked epic about becoming who you HAVE to be to survive. You had fun, you enjoyed the insanity, the movie delivered high-quality filmmaking…

…but it’s not one you’re putting in your personal “upper-tier masterpieces” list.

Still absolutely worth seeing — it enriches Fury Road and gives Furiosa the mythic backstory she deserved.

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RATING ⭐

8/10

Fun. Well-made. Not life-changing.
But absolutely worth the ride.

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⚠️ SPOILER WARNING — Massive Spoilers Beyond This Point ⚠️

What follows is FULL SPOILERS, in order, no bullet points. Just the story.

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SPOILERS 💀🔥

The movie opens with young Furiosa being kidnapped from the lush Green Place of Many Mothers by Dementus’s biker horde. He drags her around like a trophy, treating her like both a weapon and a hostage, using her as leverage to gain more territory.

Eventually she ends up traded to Immortan Joe at the Citadel — which becomes the turning point in her life. Furiosa, now forced into a world ruled by warlords, disguises her gender, hides her identity, and trains under Praetorian Jack as one of the Citadel’s elite drivers.

Her bond with Jack grows — subtle, unspoken, tragic — and of course the wasteland being the wasteland, it doesn’t last. Dementus returns, triggering a massive war against Joe’s forces, and Jack is murdered in the chaos. This trauma hardens Furiosa in a way nothing else could, shaping her into the ruthless warrior we meet later in Fury Road.

Furiosa finally hunts Dementus down. Their confrontation is intimate, violent, and symbolic. Furiosa doesn’t give him a clean death — she PUNISHES him. She plants him alive in the desert, either turning him into a grotesque “tree” or torturing him long-term depending on the interpretation. Either way, Dementus is finished — painfully.

The movie ends with Furiosa returning to the Citadel, rising higher in power, waiting for the moment years later when she will finally grab the five wives and trigger the events of Fury Road.

A full-circle origin story.
Violent. Mythic. Tragic.
And now completely tied to Mad Max canon.

Btw heres a look at a comedy movie coming out in june this year, the return of the parody movies are making a comeback. I introduce to y’all, scary movie 6.