ReviewCannes 2024 movie review – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, with Anya Taylor-Joy, is George Miller’s latest action masterpiece

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George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the latest in the dystopian saga, stars Anya Taylor-Joy as the young Furiosa, first played by Charlize Theron in 2015

The action is just as bombastic as 2015’s Fury Road, with the added bonus of Chris Hemsworth as the muscular bad guy who almost steals the show from Taylor-Joy

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Anya Taylor-Joy in a still from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (category TBC), directed by George Miller. Chris Hemsworth co-stars. Photo: Jasin Boland

James Mottram

Published: 3:30am, 16 May 2024Updated: 7:15pm, 16 May 2024

4.5/5 stars

George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga arrives with all the force of a megaton bomb.

Premiering out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival, the latest episode in the Mad Max movie series is a spin-off from Miller’s 2015 masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road that introduced the world to the one-armed female warrior Furiosa, played then by Charlize Theron.

Backtracking 15 years and starring Anya Taylor-Joy as the young adult Furiosa, this is her origin story, from innocent girl to shaven-headed “fifth rider of the apocalypse”.

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With Road Warrior Max Rockatansky absent entirely here, this switch to a female-driven vehicle may be a gear change for Miller’s franchise, but you will hardly notice.

The action is as bombastic as in Fury Road, with the added bonus of Chris Hemsworth as the antagonist, Dementus, a bearded gang leader who is vying with Fury Road’s hulking Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme) for control of The Wasteland, the desert-scape where food, water and fuel are in desperately short supply.