Furiosa: A Mad Max saga (imagine mad max without mad max action movie)



  So after, like, four movies, producers were racking their brains of how to continue the mad saga of mad max. Obviously just him chasing around some punks wasn't gonna cut it anymore, at least not without putting something else that preferably was trending on other platforms. Some dudes at the office said "Hey, fallout have been kickin' it. What if we add mutants to our nuclear apocalypse?" and while the producer was tempted another coworker said "You know what's even more trending than mutants? Female protagonists. Everyone has it, fallout, marvel, hell even star wars recently launched something on those lines." And after a round of clapping, "Furi-o-sa" was born. One thing that drove me to the wall is that not once had any character properly pronounce Furiosa, which begs the question why name her something you can't even pronounce. It's like those rich folks that name their sons something silly like "X Æ A-12". 

 Anyways, the movie has this old dude talking in off voice a lot narrating things that apparently didn't fit in the film, there's this dementus guy that as the, again, stupid name makes patent is some sort of roman-like character that rides bikes like he's riding a chariot and generally speaking other than being shit at strategy he's not very dementic, but takes a lot of camera because he killed MC's mother that was so much better than the MC, and forgetting the roman precept of killing the kids alongside the parents and just sort of kidnap her to become some sort of witness to his ascent or something like that, it's not very clear. A bunch of action scenes after, lots of shooting and explosions, some car chases, and even a substitute of Mad Max who everyone knows it's supposed to be Max even if his name is Jack, Dementus dies at the hands of Furiosa and she claims all the war spoils. Advantages of being at the right place, at the right moment I guess. Movie ends.

 As the summary shows, plot-wise the movie is quite poor. I haven't watched the other mad max movies but I surmise they aren't much better. What was indeed a problem is that the movie is far too long, lengthening two hours and a half. The first half is pretty decent but things get boring after the first (and best) road skirmish of battle-truck vs Davidson (octo-boss). Overall, entertaining but mediocre and definitively lacking in the end. 

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