Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Review!

The Mad Max Saga has unfolded from the first trilogy with Max Rockatansky, part of the Main Force Patrol, in the 1979 film. In the near future, Max (Mel Gibson) takes revenge on Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and his biker gang. He hunts them down for killing his wife and son. The sequel also known as The Road Warrior has Max in the Wasteland helping a community of survivors against the marauders led by Lord Hummungus (Kjell Nilsson). Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome has Max’s Interceptor car stolen and he heads to Bartertown to find it. The town is run by Aunty Entity (Tina Turner) who puts Max into the arena called Thunderdome. He is exiled an finds an oasis with children called Planet Erf. 

Max has to return to Bartertown to rescue a group from the oasis and manages to help a group to escape to Sydney. The next film, Mad Max: Fury Road, has Max (Tom Hardy) with his rebuilt Interceptor. He is captured by the War Boys and taken to The Citadel run by Immortan Joe (Keays-Byrne). Max is made into a blood bag for the War Boy named Nux (Nicholas Hoult). Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) drives out the War Rig for supplies and Immortan Joe discovers she has his five wives. Nux along with Max goes on the search for the wives. Max ends up on the War Rig and Furiosa meets with Valkyrie (Megan Gale). They are headed to the Green Place which was where she grew up as a child. 

Furiosa: A Mad Max Story is a prequel origin story for Furiosa. Directed by George Miller whose last film was the drama adaptation, Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022). Miller is the co-writer along with Nick Lathouris, who also worked on Mad Max: Fury Road. We hear radio repots of the apocalypse  then a closeup of an old man, The History Man (Georrge Shevtsov), at night in the desert. He tells the story of Furiosa. We see the young Furiosa (Alyla Browne) reaching up for a pomegrante. Browne played Young Alithea in Three Thousand Years of Longing. Her part takes a good part of the run time. This is the Green Place, a jungle that leads a ravine. Furiosa grabbing the pomegrante is a Garden of Eden paradise and the pomegrante is out of the myth of Persephone. 

She sees members of the Biker Horde and tells her sister, Valkyrie (Dylan Adonis) to stay while she sneaks over to their motorcycles. Furiosa cuts the fuel lines of the motorcycles, but is found by one of the bikers. She stabs his leg with a knife and frantically blows a whistle. Her mother, Mary Jabassa (Charlee Fraser) hears her daughter’s distress signal and rides a horse to find her. Fraser starred in the comedy, Anyone But You. A whip pulls down Furiosa trying to scale a cliff and she is thrown on a motorcycle to be kidnapped! Valkyrie points out to Mary and a Vuviani General (Elsa Pataky) the direction of the Biker Horde group. Pataky starred in the action movie, Interceptor (2022). The Viviani General uses her rifle to take sniper shots taking down riders. She is deadly, though the Vuviani need scouts or better defenses. 

Five War Rigs out of Five! 

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