Doesn't anyone remember the last Mad Max movie was basically a Furiosa movie anyway...

I'll be honest, as refreshingly simple and fun as this movie is, a spinoff about Furiosa should have come out a DECADE ago. This is the definition of striking while the iron is ICE COLD.

Some time later it will be considered an underated movie.

Dementus was such a fun character.

I never once considered why Furiosa had a mechanical arm in Fury Road. What's to wonder about? Look at the world she inhabits. You're lucky to be alive!

I think the biggest mistake this movie made was coming out almost a decade after Fury Road's hype had all but dried up. Imagine how much more buzz this film would have gotten if it was released in 2017 or even 2019.

This movie really feels like an innocent victim of the previous flops... This is literally commerce at its finest, based on confidence. No one believes Hollywood can produce any good things anymore, so even good movies get shunned now...

Dementus' own story is really interesting his rise and fall as a warlord, lossing his initial confrontation with Joe and gaining the upper hand only to be saddled with rule a fief in addition to his hoard, the spiral of his sanity all the way to his eventual greek tragedy like fate. He is even depicted mythically as "Red Dementus" cape and chariot included.

Given the stream of subpar "girl-boss" movies polluting the pool, it's no surprise people aren't willing to wade in the muck to find out if Furiousa is a gem.

Time flies. In my mind I thought Fury Road came out only like 4 years ago.

The film stayed with me after, which was interesting. I now understand why George was writing this as he was making Fury Road. Max’s journey from only being a survivor, to putting himself at risk to help someone else (Furiosa ) not lose themselves in a pointless quest. And this film, Furiosa, about how enduring incredible trauma does not necessarily mean you turn into the traumatic villain. Shakespeare and I really appreciate his ambition. Plus, both are absolute banger, action films.

It's really quite sad, I just saw this movie in an enormous xtreme screen cinema on the weekend and fucking loved it but there were only like 12 people in the showing. As an Australian I'm so proud that we have George Miller and Baz Luhrmann: 2 absolute visionaries who make the movies they want to make, even in the face of everyone else asking "why". Furiosa is going to stand the test of time as a cult gem, and I really enjoyed how weird and unique and different and utterly brutal it was. It was kind of like smashing elements of Dune, Game of Thrones and, yeah, Mad Max, into one film. I felt a bit of George Lucas prequel vibes, in that, Miller was obviously just like, I don't care if it's brutal and strange and audiences might not like it, I want it to be like this and I don't give a fuk. I love giving my money to visionary unique filmmakers like this who take somewhat ballsy decisions, and I'm sad that it bombed in the box office. It's not "Poor Things" level of unique and odd, it's much more accessible than that, but in its own way these modern Mad Max films just have a whole lot of world building and odd characters and unique flavour that no other modern action films have.

Fun fact, the original Immorten Joe was played by the actor who played the gang leader all the way back in the first Mad Max film

It's 100% the apathy towards Hollywood. They lost our trust so much that we aren't even willing to go see the good movies. The era of Hollywood movies is over.

This movie was flat out great! Anyone who loved Fury Road should see this. Only George Miller can make a movie like this and I shouldn’t have doubted him.

Max not being in this is one of the few things that has nothing to do with it not smashing the box office. May be Milller’s best work yet.

The reason Furiosa is bombing is because their advertising campaign was absolutely abysmal. They never released a good trailer. Fury Road was the opposite. Second reason is because nobody cares about a young Furiosa who isn't Charlize. Turns out people want to see Max in a MAD MAX film

This is the film that finally made me realize that I just don’t much care for movies anymore. I used to go almost every weekend, sometimes double featuring it, but it’s been months now since I’ve bothered to go the cinema. I used to get angry when Hollywood told me that I’m not dark enough, gay enough, or female enough to watch their films, but I’m past that now. I just don’t care anymore. So maybe Furiousa is good, maybe it’s bad, hell maybe it’s just mid, but it doesn’t matter anymore because I just have no interest in watching movies. So congratulations Hollywood, you got what you wanted, I’m out touching grass.

It's a combination of everything. Streaming, ticket prices, movie theaters just not being what they used to be, (meaning they're kind of run down and a lot of times other audience members are annoying), all the terrible movies that have come out in the past decade or so, all this is led to a distrust and disinterest in Hollywood and movies in general.

"Why does this movie exist?" "No one asked for this." "Fury Road is better." "We should have got a movie with Max in it." All the above is simply hot air. The film is brilliant all on its own merits. Chris Hemsworth will receive the Best Supporting Actor nom, mark my words.

Reasons why Furiosa flopped: 1) Ppl aren't going to the movies like they used to and waiting for streaming 2) It's a prequel and Charlize isn't back 3) Ppl want to see Mad Max not Furiosa 4) The only movie ppl are going to see in theater is Deadpool 3

I'm a simple Aussie. I can't understand how any movie with Mad Max in its title doesn't have Mel Gibson as lead while the bloke is still breathing. Its Top Gun without Tom.

What a great movie. Had a ton of fun watching it.

That picture of Mel would have been the Max the world needed.

No one seems to remember that Fury Road was not a box office hit when it came out. Yeah, everyone who saw it loved it, but not many people actually saw it.

Nerdrotic said it best: “The girl-boss era of Hollywood [which Fury Road helped create] has done more damage to female characters than any real misogynist could ever do”

I really enjoyed this movie! Felt just because the universe has one guy's name in it doesn't mean the universe can't exist with him being 100% present like the world around him lives whether he happens to be there or not imo

Although I loved the movie, I must admit that this franchise has never been too popular. It was a huge risk spending that kind of budget on Furiosa. A sequel to Fury road could have been a smarter move.

I am a huge Mad Max fan and loved Fury Road. Never once did I say to myself..."I would love to see Furiosa's origin story". Never.

Judging by the box office, people didn't fall for the "Mad Max saga" in the title

still don't understand how Hemsworth's nose changed so drastically halfway through the movie.

I thought it was a brilliant movie, hope this isn't the end of the mad max movies.

Seeing a grizzled old max played by Mel Gibson for one last time would’ve been the epitome of the season and a great send off for the character. Love him or hate him, Mel Gibson is one hell of an actor and without him this series wouldn’t exist. So he deserves his final chance at the character. Pure and simple.

Spend ten solid years as an industry mocking the audience you need for a movie like this and watch the trust evaporate.

This is a very good Mad Max world telling story. Chris Hemsworth is one good bad guy. And Furiosa's story is told very well. And there is a sort of mad max replacement in the story and he gave me the mad max vibes. I say go see it. It's quite a gem and worth every penny of your money.

The title “Mad Max” is pretty obvious because it’s in the world of Mad Max. It’s still the Mad Max franchise, just like Star Wars or Planet of the Apes

It’s not *general* apathy… it’s a very specific apathy: too many beloved franchises run into the ground; too many films/shows with bitter, unappealing characters and themes and terrible writing… so now that even though there are finally some good ones… we’ve just had it. We’re done.

To quote Ned Flanders. Modern Hollywood is “…the answer to a question nobody asked”.

Quite good movie. Nothing sophisticated about the story but it's well executed as just an action movie.

I respect you at least watched some of your contemporaries were shitting on the movie and calling it a “girl boss” movie without even watching it which was stupid.

I think it's all three. 1. Hollywood sucks lately. 2. Cinema prices are waaaaaaaaay to high. 3. Wait a couple weeks and watch it at home. I do wish all three problems would be solved, though. I really miss "going to the movies".

From memory, Miller had always planned for Fury Road to be followed by two films, with the scripts already written by the time production had ended. One of these at least was for Furiosa, and the other a Mad Max film with Tom hardy. The reason for the delay on a sequel was due to legal issues with Warner Brothers, who tried to screw Miller out of bonuses for coming under budget. Post completion, WB made extra demands, wanting the film to be 3D to meet the cinema trend at the time, and apparently made sure the budget blew out to profit themselves. There were other shenanigans as well, with WB claiming breach of contract, claiming Miller was supposed to deliver a PG13 film, and a 100 minute run time. So the delay isn't Miller's fault, but once again due to studios meddling with visionaries, and thinking they know best, then screwing them over in the process.

2:44 "Want to know how she lost her arm and replaced it with a metal one? Want to know more about her relationship with Immortan Joe? Want to know how she came to be in command of the war rig?" Yeah that sounds pretty cool. "Nah me neither." Oh.

Literally the first time ever that I’ve seen Chris Hemsworth on the big screen and didn’t leave the theater thinking I was just robbed of 2 hours of my life and a ticket worth of money.

The reason why this was made was because Miller wrote enough material for a trilogy that would be fury road, a prequel that is actualyl the genuine start of the story he wrote in Furiosa, and then a third film thats a sequel to fury road that miller has called the Wasteland that will follow Tom Hardy's Max again. The reason this was made was because Miller wants to tell his full story

2024: when "Simple, solid, dependable" is the highest praise you can expect for a movie.

I really can't stand people constantly saying how an affect "wouldn't have been possible without cgi". They'd say the same about all the stunts in Fury Road were they not done for real. Literally ANY shot is possible practically, it's just a matter of being out-of-the-box enough to figure out how to do it. Tons of amazing affects were accomplished long before cgi was ever a thing. But that kind of ingenuity and initiative seems sparce now to say the least

Overall, it was an enjoyable movie. The young woman playing Furiosa was lovely and capable. Rather than just girl-boss her way, she used guile and intelligence to navigate her way through the perils of the wasteland. My only question afterwards was, is her name Furiosuh, or Furiosahhh?

This film is an example of "Wrong place and time". Should've came out about 2 years after Fury Road when the hype surrounding that film was still fresher. Sadly, a decade of bad films starring women with writers, producers, directors, and actors all saying "Fuck off, we don't need you" has made the movie going audience smaller. To the general audience, the fact it's a spin-off has them going "nah, we'll pass". We're all tired of prequels, sequels, spin-offs, remakes. We want something fresh and original. We're just jaded and cynical, esp. after the past decade of the aforementioned "Fuck off, we don't need you" mentality that is plaguing Hollywood.

The lengthy gap between the films is probably explained by this 2022 bit from The Telegraph: "In 2017 Miller’s production company filed a $7 million lawsuit against [Warners] over an unpaid production bonus. Miller wants to make two sequels: a Furiosa spin-off with Theron and another Mad Max film, Mad Max: The Wasteland. Both are in suspended animation as the legal case plays out." - so it looks like the film was "on pause" for at least 5 of those 9 years due to the legal shenanigans.

Unironically, I appreciate your impartiality in this review Drinker. I haven’t seen it in theater and now I wish I had.

I'm glad I saw it in the theaters because it didn't disappoint. Almost every movie I've seen in the theaters over the last 6 years has disappointed.

Still wrapping my head around Fury Road coming out TEN YEARS AGO! I thought it was 3 or 4 years ago.

"Mad Mad Minus Mad Max: Minimum Max"

When I first heard about this movie months and months ago, I thought "who wants to see a Mad Max movie about the character I was least invested in in Fury Road?" I wanted desperately to know more about MAX from that movie, not her. So I decided a long time ago that I wasn't interested.

I think one thing that cant ignored is the fact that people are financially struggling man It costs like 100 bucks to take your family or even just go on a date to the movies The idea of a "box office hit" and movies doing crazy numbers at the theatres when people dont have any money + the fact that it will likely be on a streaming service you already pay for within a few months is going to make people.. well.. not go to the movies the only people I know who go to the movies are my parents

Chris Hemsworth wearing a cape in another movie ......LOL Edna Mode's head is exploding

Far as I recall, nobody was especially enthusiastic about a prequel about Furiosa back when it was sort-of-announced, some 8 years ago. Since then, Hollywood managed to thoroughly poison the well regarding female led action films, and Mad Max as a franchise returned back to its coffin, so I'm hardly surprised it's not doing all that well. Also, the original film was made on a budget that probably would not even cover a day of catering for this one.

When I watch a prequel and it poses a question that was answered in the original I still enjoy finding out what line of thinking convinced them to choose that path.

I didn't know how bad I wanted to see 'Old Man Max' until you said it. Damn, that would be awesome. Whether they tie it in or not, would bring great closure to a character and bring some overarching plot point and continuity for the rest of the franchise.

What the audience really wants is Old Mad Max with Mel Gibson

I feel like this just doesnt catch the gritty nature of Mad Max Fury Road. Like holy hell the over use of CGI in here is crazy and its to noticeable. Fury Road also had its share of CGI but it was only used when necessary and was blended better. In addition the got Immortan Joe kind of wrong and didnt really portray him at a younger age. Immortan Joe was in his 60-70s in fury road. So when he and Furiosa meet for the first time he should have been like at least 20 years younger and not afflicted by that many ailments like we was in Fury Road.

I just got a few pints in me and I think I know how the idea for this movie was pitched. It went like this - let's have a Mad Max movie with no Mad Max. Let's make it about Furiosa, but with no Furiosa people know either! Wile E. Coyote, super genius!

"Maybe it's just general apathy towards Hollywood these days?" Apathy?? My good man, I am NOT 'apathetic' - I absolutely DESPISE them...

Everything looks so clean for a post apocalyptic desert. I live in a suburb with access to car care products and I can’t keep my car that shiny.

I absolutely loved it. The world building alone was worth the price of the the ticket double over in my opinion.

This is the only channel I watch for movie reviews

I'd have to say one of the biggest factors is box office wariness. It's not so much the money, but time that people are being more protective of & the fact that they cannot trust the sources they used to for an honest preview of a film. If they're streaming something at home, they can just turn it off if it feels like a waste. In a theater though, you've invested more than just the time of the movie. You've invested getting everyone to the theater & back, which either took your own gas or the cost of an Uber. You've stood in line for tickets & concessions. You've gotten to your theater which in some towns there's only one screen and others have a multiplex so it might take 10mins to get from the concessions to the theater. People think I'm insane for pointing this out and that I'm nitpicking, but all of that adds up and people want to have assurances that they aren't wasting all that. So now here comes the second arm of the problem; they can't get honesty from mainstream sources anymore. From being called names, told we can touch grass if we don't like, ignored so they can shill for big corporations to get access, and flat out lied to about the actual contents of the IP itself, why waste valuable time, money, and brain cells on an industry that has firmly told us to go fornicate ourselves?

General audiences don't trust Hollywood to entertain them anymore. With rare exceptions, many people are turning away from mainstream entertainment to alternative sources.

Fantastic movie. You can tell how much care and effort went into it.

I think that where I generally agree with the Drinker, we disagree on one big thing. I don't want to see "Hollywood" make a comeback . I wanna see it burn....

Up next: Father Ted reboot focusing on a Mrs Doyle origin story.

I can confirm. I hardly care what is in the movie theater nowadays. I'm lucky to see one movie a year in theater and it has been this way for almost a decade.

Quite simply, I Loved Furiosa. Just a great fun film to watch. Shame it didn't do great at the box office

Wait.. This was a real movie? Is that the chick from Queens Gambit? Now that is a good show!

Hollywood told me I wasn't their audience anymore, so I stopped coming.

Apathy is only a part. Going to the theater is becoming an expensive night out. Who wants to take a $45 gamble that a movie isn't going to suck?

Perfect movie to see in the theaters - loud, exciting, excellent costumes and visuals, good acting. The story isn't bad either. Really glad I went to see it despite not being excited by the mediocre trailer. Overall I thought it was just as good as Fury Road and the world building here is top notch.

Pretorian Jack was my favorite person in the film

Am I the only one missing the expertly shot and mostly practical action scenes of the predecessor? All this new weightless CGI overload didn’t really do it for me in this movie

Mad max was in this film - When she is walking in the desert alone after having her arm removed there is a Shot of Max and his car eating then turning and looking at furiosa collapse. She is then dragged away by max

The lack of box office attendance is going to stay the same except in rare cases where a movie appeals to a strange mix of age demographics. Top Gun Maverick comes to mind. If you look back at the history of home video sales you could see the trend emerging as far back as the VHS days, there was often just as much money there, and in the case of some movies, more money to be made than there was in theatres. Theatre runs are expensive. The theatres themselves pocket I think it's nearly half the ticket price. If you made 500m in theatres, and 300m in home video, you actually probably profited more from the home sales than you did the theatre run. Home video sales also show there has been a growing appetite by Americans & Europeans specifically to watch content on their own schedule, own pace, and in their own homes. Streaming is just the latest version of home video, so any nation that has high internet saturation is going to have very depressed box office numbers. You also have to factor in that the average American doesn't have as much disposable income as they used to, and the ones who do typically have home theatre set ups. A "proper" trip to the movies is going to cost you between $20 and $30. For some of us, that's our weekly food budget.

I work with several people in their 20s. None of them had ever heard of Mad Max when I told them I was going to see Furiosa this weekend. There is a serious marketing problem in Hollywood.

personally i think it would have been a lot more interesting if they made a direct sequel to the 2015 movie only this time a more stand alone Max movie, serving as a throwback to the 79 original. Back to basics, very straight-foward 90min movie. It would have been cheaper, and probably a lot more profitable than this one could ever be.

Similar to the Anakin Conundrum. Yeah, some people wanna know the history of this character, but not everyone. And when you tell us all these details we dont get any real fulfillment from it.

I LOVE this movie. Will be watching it many times over.

Was young Furiosa going to get killed by Dementor? Nope, we knew she wasn't. Was Dementor going to kill Immortan Joe? Nope, we knew he wasn't. Right there, the two main characters of the movie have ZERO suspense in regard to two of the main plot drivers. "Oh so that's how she lost her arm." and about 10 examples of "Oh so that's where that guy came from." are about all this movie had to offer - my opinion, for what its worth.

I doubt that the whole “girlboss” issue, much less the whole “Mad Max without Mad Max” angle is the explanation for the box office dropoff. As others have rightly pointed out, Fury Road came out nearly a decade ago, and that’s the main issue with the marketing. People forget who Furiosa is, people forget who Mad Max was. I highly doubt that ANYONE went to see Furiosa expecting it to include anything more than a Max cameo. Those people are the ones who those a one-second look at the poster. Make no mistake, this is a well-directed, refreshingly simple and well-paced movie which is full of entertaining sequences. Anya Taylor-Joy is excellent at portraying Furiosa with just her actions and expressions. Chris Hemsworth is delightfully deranged. Is this as good as Fury Road? Not quite, but really, Fury Road is a high bar for non-stop big blow action. As to the whole “why?” question, well, simply because George Miller wanted to tell a story. If you ask me, that is a far, far nobler intention than the money churners of Marvel, or the ego and agenda of a Rian Johnson. Miller always had in mind a trilogy of which Furiosa would be part of, and due to production setbacks and the unprofitability of Fury Road, only managed to get it done now, which is unfortunate. Some people in the comments are dragging Furiosa like it’s a Phantom Menace, or a Last Jedi. Hardly. It never promised to feature Max, it never acted as though Furiosa herself was a flawless female heroine, there is no agenda at work here. So go watch Furiosa in theatres. Well worth in my opinion. I saw it with a friend and he was shocked to realise at the end that the movie was 2.5 hours long. He’d thought it topped out at 2.

I've never seen anything mad max related prior to this movie. I had no expectations going in, and was completely blown away by this movie. It's an excellent entryway into the greater franchise, I just wish more people got introduced by it. The last time I watched it, I was the only one in the theater.

Just seeing that image of Mel Gibson as an old Max just makes me wonder what if?!

I thoroughly enjoyed Millers latest instalment. Glorious in IMAX and God, that drum beat on the action scenes was hypnotic.

Hemswort was GREAT. Real good acting here. A dark twist on his many comedic roles. He really adds something new to the roster of the Mad max desert villains. The highlight of the movie for me.

This movie is truy a masterpiece. Deserves an oscar for best director and best picture. I haven't enjoyed a movie this much since watching Boon Joon-Ho's Parasite.

The director sued the movie studio for trying to screw him, and corona is why it came out so late.

I don't care if it's a flop based on box office sales. Many movies flop before becoming cult classics. It's not about opening weekend... It's about quality of story. Even the original Mad Max wasn't a massive success in America at first. And now... It's legendary. Seeing this film tomorrow. I'm open to an expanded world and deeper lore. Sounds great to me :)

It’s like Dune Part 1 after Part 2, which is weird but still fun

The problem I have with this younger Furiosa is she barely emotes when she gets wounded, even the original emotes when she gets stabbed or punched.

This movie was made because George Miller wanted to make it. It wasn't made by a studio focused only on making as much money as possible. It was held up because WB and George Miller had a dispute over bonus pay, so it took a long time to negotiate a deal for a new movie. And to be honest, there's a chance that positive word of mouth will give this movie a boost, and give it a bit of a late-week surge. People saw 'female-led action spinoff' and rolled their eyes, expecting the worst.

We DO need another hero.

I went to see the movie a third time today, just before it leaves IMAX. Man, it gets better every time. The first time I saw it, there was a lot to take in. Lots of important detail flashed by almost without you remarking upon it. Or seemed arbitrary in relation to Fury Road. But you only realize that later. Every time I've watched it again, more pieces fell into place. The strange thing is also that the movie seems to become tighter and to flow more smoothly on repeated viewing. It does not feel nearly as long as one might expect from a two-and-a-half-hour movie. An amazing thrill ride, with (it has to be said) a more developed story line than Fury Road. I have a feeling that if Furiosa had been released in 2015, and Fury Road in 2024, reviewers like this guy would be just as dissatisfied with the latest instalment. They might complain about the story line: racing to the Green Place, finding it's not there, and then racing back to the Citadel. Happy ending, Hollywood Style. They might also say that Miller relied too much on chase sequences for their own sake, that they seem dramatically unmotivated. The first leads nowhere. The second gets them back to where they started, except Immorten Joe is dead. So that's the story? Immorten dies and there will be World Peace? One thing that the would-be reviewers would understand is Furiosa's heartbreak when it turns out the Green Place has vanished. So would we, much better, probably, than we did in 2015. Of course I completely disagree with such short-sighted thinking, but it shows that neither movie could top the other, regardless of the sequence in which they came out. BTW I wouldn't worry too much about Max. I predict that the next instalment will be a prequel to Furiosa. The one thing that remains most conspicuously unexplained is why both Max and Dementus lost their families, at some point before Furiosa starts. If that was at the same time, then clearly they responded to the loss in different ways. Dementus decided to become a ruthless warlord (something he is spectacularly inept at), with only the stuffty recalling his days as a loving father. That agrees with much of what he says to Furiosa at the end of the movie. Max, on the other hand, is tormented by flashbacks which suggest that he had failed his daughter, that she had died because he didn't act as he should have. When this background is explored (I hope), the end result may be a coherent trilogy with an overarching story line. Don't underestimate the genius of George Miller. Watch Furiosa a second time. Or a third. Or in my case, a fourth.