A big, feral, highly stylized wasteland epic that trades some of Fury Road’s breathless momentum for mythmaking, scale, and a more tragic emotional spine. It’s brutal, funny, and visually inventive, with George Miller still operating at an unusually high level of action-craft.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Where to watch: Buy
Movie · Action · Science Fiction
Wed · 2h 29m
Director: George Miller
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke
Overview
As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.
Director
George Miller
Cast
Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke
Curator Review
Verdict
A big, feral, highly stylized wasteland epic that trades some of Fury Road’s breathless momentum for mythmaking, scale, and a more tragic emotional spine. It’s brutal, funny, and visually inventive, with George Miller still operating at an unusually high level of action-craft.
Best for
fans of maximalist action cinema
viewers who like post-apocalyptic worldbuilding
audiences who enjoy revenge stories with a mythic sweep
people who appreciate practical-effects spectacle and kinetic editing
Skip if
you want a lean, nonstop chase movie
you dislike bleak violence and cruelty
you need a self-contained story with a light tone
you’re not interested in prequels or expanded lore
Overview
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is less a pure adrenaline sprint than a saga title promises, but it earns the name. George Miller turns the wasteland into a legend machine, building a brutal origin story out of grief, endurance, and the absurd pageantry of collapse. The result is sprawling, ugly, and often exhilarating in the same breath.
Worth noting
Anya Taylor-Joy gives Furiosa a steely, haunted presence, while Chris Hemsworth leans into a gleefully grotesque villain turn that keeps the film from becoming too solemn. The action remains the selling point: enormous, legible, and packed with the kind of visual invention that makes even familiar beats feel newly dangerous.
Bottom line
It doesn’t hit with the same relentless velocity as Fury Road, and some viewers will feel the extra exposition and chaptered structure. But as a companion piece, it deepens the mythology and delivers a rare blockbuster that feels handmade, operatic, and a little deranged in the best way.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Jesse (2★) · 20277 likes
it’s furiOsa, not furioSA.
mariano (5★) · 13378 likes
never seen anyone act so nonchalant after getting their nipples ripped off
Bryan Espitia (4★) · 7350 likes
The boys are all here: Scrotus, Toe Jam, Chumbucket, and of course, Pissboy
James (Schaffrillas) (4★) · 6375 likes
Sickest damn revenge I've ever seen in a movie. Diabolical. Shoutout to that guy at the Cinemark who recognized me! I would say you made my day, but like, I watched Furiosa right after soooooo
davidehrlich (4.5★) · 5260 likes
You can’t unkill the world. Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa learned that lesson the hard way when she commandeered a rig full of Immortan Joe’s precious war brides and sped across the desert towards the matriarchal eden from which she was stolen as a child. She and her motley crew of reluctant allies drove as far as the highways of Valhalla would take them, only to discover that the Green Place of Many Mothers wasn’t beyond the uninhabitable swampland they had
Themes
revenge, survival, post-apocalyptic collapse, trauma and memory, female resilience, tyranny and warlords, mythic origin story, found family