“Furiosa”: What the critics say about the new Mad Max movie starring Anya Taylor-Joy

The criticisms of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (“Furiosa: from the Mad Max saga”), which premiered last week at the Cannes Festival and this Thursday in theaters, have been varied. It has received comments ranging from “shocking” to “all spectacle and no vision.”

The fifth film in the series Mad Max It is a prequel, starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworthwhich tells the origins of Imperator Furiosa, the character played by Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road (“Mad Max: Fury Road”), 2015.

The saga of dystopian action films created by George Miller is set in the arid outback of Australia and explores the collapse of society in the wake of an apocalypse.

The Independent rated the new film as “emotional, witty and full of intentional savagery”while Variety He said it’s “ambitious” but “it’s not ‘Fury Road’.”

David Rooney also wrote, in The Hollywood Reporterthat the film is “a big step back from ‘Mad Max: Fury Road,'” with “little tension or fluidity in a narrative whose formlessness is accentuated by its pretentious chapter structure.

But Geoffrey Macnab wrote in The Independent which “has the concentrated intensity of 2015’s ‘Fury Road’, yet unfolds on a much broader canvas.”

“Dialogue is reduced to a minimum,” he wrote.

“But even in an action role almost entirely devoid of quieter moments, Taylor-Joy is able to convey a lot of Furiosa’s raw inner emotions“.

The film, which also stars Tom Burke and Alyla Browne, takes place about 20 years before “Fury Road,” and we see Furiosa grow from childhood to becoming a warrior.

It premiered out of competition at Cannes and received a six-minute standing ovation. Miller, the director, said that, like Fury Roadended up becoming “almost a feminist work” by chance.

A story about a male hero freeing the enslaved wives of a harem would have been “a different story than a female warrior,” she said.

“It wasn’t ‘Oh, let’s make a feminist action movie,’ it was always story-driven.”

Nikki Baughan, from Screen Dailycalled the “high-octane revenge thriller” a “sparkling comeback,” but added: “While Fury Road takes place in just three days, which gives it an incessant frenetic energy, ‘Furiosa’ spans 15 years, divided into several chapters, which translates into a slower and sometimes uneven pace“.

Robbie Collin, from The Daily Telegraphcalled the film “cinema in its most primitive and shocking state.”

“It’s the kind of movie that makes you feel that the last century of Hollywood may have been a detour and that now the machine has been towed back on course,” he added.

But in timeStephanie Zacharek described it as “pure spectacle and no vision”.

“Despite its many, many action sequences, and a symphonic cacophony of motorcycles whizzing through the sand, the film, divided into chapters with boring titles like ‘Lessons from the Desert,’ becomes a heaviness that struggles to convince us of that we’re having a good time, even though we’re not really having one,” he said.

John Nugent of the magazine empiregave the film five stars and praised the lead actors: “Taylor-Joy, in particular, is phenomenal. His large, intense eyes stand out against his motor oil-stained forehead and convey subtlety in a role with little dialogue.”

“Chris Hemsworth’s Dementus, meanwhile, is a chatterbox: a charismatic, often shirtless and progressively more chaotic despot who rules his army of bikers… from a gas-powered Roman chariot.”

Brian Viner, of The Daily Mailalso rated the film five stars: “It’s an absolute spectacle from start to finish, a worthy prequel to the high-octane 2015 blockbuster. Mad Max: Fury Road“.

“It’s completely stunning to behold, decidedly loud to the ear, and a 1,000 watt shock to the spirit: I loved”.

In GuardianPeter Bradshaw gave the film four stars, calling Taylor-Joy “tremendous”, saying that she “sells this prequel.”

But Kevin Maher, in The Timeswrote: “After a thrilling opening chase scene, ‘Furiosa’ quickly sinks into a slow-moving plot and weak acting“.

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