Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is an Australian post-apocalyptic action that he signs as a director, co-writer and producer George Miller. This is the fifth film in Mad Max franchise and the first in which the protagonist of the story is not Max Rockatansky – it is a prequel to the film Mad Max: Fury Road and represents the origin story of Furiosa, who was then portrayed by Charlize Theron. Set some 15 years before the events in Fury Road follows the life of the title character from her abduction as a girl by the evil leader of the biker horde Dementus (Kris Hemsvort) until her elevation to the rank of Emperor. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 15, and was released in cinemas eight days later
I believe that many agree with me when I say that it is Fury Road pure, full-blooded spectacle whose intensity of action can hardly be surpassed. Miller this time brings us details about how Furiosa from the previous film became such a hardened warrior, hardened even among the people who survived in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. The plot of the film is exactly what I expected – using a mixture of practical elements, stunts and real vehicles with visual effects. Angry provides us with plenty of chases with various types of transport and thoroughbred action with pyrotechnics and explosions through the Australian desert. In this way, Miller ensures that we see the levels of detail and dedication required for these sequences, while assuring us that each one is comprehensible both on a stage and story level.
However, the fact is that in this sequel there are not nearly as many of those scenes, which in itself is not a big problem. After all, Miller has been making these films since the late 1970s, and while the 30-year hiatus between the last of the original trilogy and his 2015 reboot certainly resulted in a burst of creativity, it’s not like the sequels prior to this pairing were non-stop action. extravagances – the appeal was in the world building, the strange inventiveness of its spaces and characters, and in the fact that each film was unique in its own way.
None of that can be argued as strongly in this film, which is intrinsically famous for bringing back most of the locations and many of the characters or character types from the previous film. We also get an unwieldy narrative that follows the title character from her childhood to her act of defiance that set the previous film in motion. It also doesn’t help that so much of Furiosa’s character in this story hinges on our knowledge of who she will become. She is mostly silent here, either as a child or after a certain number of years have passed which has led to her acting Anja Taylor-Joy.
The basic premise is a tale of revenge. Young Furiosa is kidnapped from her idyllic green home by a gang of robbers, leading to a long chase through the desert by Furiosa’s mother. The girl falls into the hands of the deranged Dementus who, after some negotiations over resources, passes her on to Immortal Joe, the head of the Citadel, one of the three main fortresses in the desert. As the two tyrants battle for supremacy, Furiosa becomes determined to take justice into her own hands, kill Dementus and return home.
All this is nothing new and the simplicity of the plot within this franchise is often an advantage. However, in this case the story feels a bit shaky. The narrative is divided into chapters, is often interrupted by editing (fades to black to suddenly end a scene), and constantly makes vague leaps forward in time, as Furiosa grows and the politics of the wasteland change. I’m of the opinion that all this somewhat undermines the momentum of what is otherwise a fairly clear story and that the dynamic from Fury Road.
On the other hand, the plot is still strong, although the three or four main parts of this film don’t quite measure up to even some of the smaller moments of destructive, creative or wondrous wonder of the previous film. The highlight is probably the attempted heist of a tanker truck on the infamous Fury Road, as a gang of thieves use cars and motorcycle-towed paragliders to steal the truck. Meanwhile, Praetorian Jack, a kind of proto-Max, and a group of war boys, pale-colored seekers of glorious death, repel the attackers with a truck, a harpoon, exploding spears and a crane that can grab a motorcycle.
The use of longer takes allows us to admire the intricate mixing of stunts and visual effects, as does another sequence that sees Furiosa and Jack ambushed at a bullet farm. In this location, the geography of the quarry allows shootings at different levels and Jack fights other vehicles and equipment with his truck. It’s impressive stuff by almost any measure, but it has the misfortune of seeing even more spectacular things in the previous film.
No matter how striking it is, the action this time is not enough by itself and the intermittent spectacle of the film cannot compensate for certain shortcomings. First of all, Angry is simply overcrowded with too familiar elements. Also, the subjective opinion is that the background of the main character is not too important, especially since she is, essentially, on the sidelines until the final third of the story and we have learned everything we need about her in Fury Road. Finally, this sequel offers nothing new to the Wasteland world in which this franchise is set.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a return to the dirty, frenetic and amoral world of the Wasteland, which is retroactively emotionally enriching Fury Roadbut it does not present a sufficiently large and dynamic spectacle like its predecessor.
my final rating: 8/10
Source: filmskerecenzije.com
