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Having watched "Mad Max: Fury Road" right before watching this, it was easy to notice the drastic decrease in quality. "Fury Road" is truly a full throttle action film while "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" is boring and nonsensical from the moment it starts. The opening scene shows a young Furiosa being kidnapped and blowing a whistle to call for help. A whole village of people hear the call but literally only two people respond. She is taken away and there are clearly opportunities when she could have been saved but she isn't for the sake of the plot. This kidnapping scene drags on with poor dialogue and lifeless humor. This was just the beginning of what the rest of this film would be.
Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) is a ridiculously lousy character. He was supposed to be the villain but takes on more of a comedic role. From the moment he appears on screen he looks like the parody of a villain. He has a prosthetic nose; he's wearing a white sheet for a cape and accessorizes his outfit with a teddy bear chained to his back. So, it was impossible to take him serious at all especially with that distracting nose that felt pointless to say the least. It didn't help that his dialogue was also playful and made this film a nightmare tonally.
The younger versions of Furiosa not played by Anya Taylor-Joy were well acted but took up too much of the run time. Anya Taylor-Joy was okay as Furiosa. However, there are scenes involving her character that didn't make sense like her walking around The Citadel with long hair unnoticed. Or Immortan Joe never noticing she's gone. Not to mention her escape when she loses her arm. Praetorian Jack (Tom Burke) was also just an okay character. I didn't mind his role in the story.
While the visuals were similar to those of "Fury Road", the action scenes didn't feel as intense. There were also random points in the film where someone would narrate the story which was a weird direction to tell this story.
Overall, this film was too long. There are too many scenes that are longer than they needed to be. It was boring for most of its runtime and failed to explore things that would have been more interesting. A forgetful prequel.
Having watched "Mad Max: Fury Road" right before watching this, it was easy to notice the drastic decrease in quality. "Fury Road" is truly a full throttle action film while "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" is boring and nonsensical from the moment it starts. The opening scene shows a young Furiosa being kidnapped and blowing a whistle to call for help. A whole village of people hear the call but literally only two people respond. She is taken away and there are clearly opportunities when she could have been saved but she isn't for the sake of the plot. This kidnapping scene drags on with poor dialogue and lifeless humor. This was just the beginning of what the rest of this film would be.
Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) is a ridiculously lousy character. He was supposed to be the villain but takes on more of a comedic role. From the moment he appears on screen he looks like the parody of a villain. He has a prosthetic nose; he's wearing a white sheet for a cape and accessorizes his outfit with a teddy bear chained to his back. So, it was impossible to take him serious at all especially with that distracting nose that felt pointless to say the least. It didn't help that his dialogue was also playful and made this film a nightmare tonally.
The younger versions of Furiosa not played by Anya Taylor-Joy were well acted but took up too much of the run time. Anya Taylor-Joy was okay as Furiosa. However, there are scenes involving her character that didn't make sense like her walking around The Citadel with long hair unnoticed. Or Immortan Joe never noticing she's gone. Not to mention her escape when she loses her arm. Praetorian Jack (Tom Burke) was also just an okay character. I didn't mind his role in the story.
While the visuals were similar to those of "Fury Road", the action scenes didn't feel as intense. There were also random points in the film where someone would narrate the story which was a weird direction to tell this story.
Overall, this film was too long. There are too many scenes that are longer than they needed to be. It was boring for most of its runtime and failed to explore things that would have been more interesting. A forgetful prequel.
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