Review: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
You can have too much of a good thing.
When George Miller returned to the Mad Max universe for the first time in 30 years with 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road, he not only reinvigorated his own franchise but reinvented it. Miller needed the technology of the time to catch up to his vision, the financial resources to make it all happen, and apparently a few Happy Feet entries under his belt before he felt ready for another. Returning to the universe again nine years later, Miller brings us Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — a Fury Road prequel collapsing under the weight of those prequel duties. Anya Taylor-Joy takes over the title role (Furiosa, that is, not Max) from Charlize Theron and makes a case for being a surprisingly daring actor willing to take difficult risks, but the same cannot, unfortunately, be said of the film.