Furiosa is the best action movie since Mad Max: Fury Road (review)

30: behind this seemingly innocuous number hides an improbable anecdote about the film Furiosa. 30 is the number of lines of dialogue spoken by Ana Taylor-Joy, actress who takes up — brilliantly — the torch from Charlize Theron, in this prologue to Mad Max: Fury Road. Where Tom Hardy, who was already described as silent, had more than double that. In short, Furiosa: A Mad Max saga (his full name) speaks little. Which does not prevent him from saying a lot with the force of his hallucinatory images, born in the abundant mind of George Miller.

At 79 years old, the filmmaker proves, with Furiosa: A Mad Max saga, that he still has some under the hood. Better, this time, it took less than ten years to enhance the universe of his entire life with a new film. Less furious and more calm, this origin story leaves more room for narration to understand how the revelation of Mad Max: Fury Road — Furiosa, instant feminist icon among crazy men. As expected, it was built in sand, sweat, oil and blood. His misfortune clearly makes us happy.

Furiosa offers a sensational show

“ No room for sentimentality », asserts Chris Hemsworth, who has become a jester for Marvel, and who finds in Dementus the role of his life. A crazy guy at the head of a biker gang, who mourns his dead with a symbolic stuffed animal and tries to survive in an immensely empty desert. There is undoubtedly no better formula to characterize the work of George Miller, which depicts a future without faith or law. Where the notion of good and evil no longer has reason to exist. Where hope gives way to hatred. The hatred of others which allows you to scrape a few minutes of life in a hell with no real future. Furiosa: A Mad Max saga does not need to be talkative for us to guess the past and the destiny of his puppets with a more than limited lifespan. There are no words to irradiate us with his ills.

George Miller took a huge risk with this Furiosa: A Mad Saga Max, which could only have been a simple repetition of Fury Road, with Max — the headliner — minus. But he has found a solution that allows him to extract a bit of emotion from the nihilistic nothingness. While the men bicker over a piece of cabbage, a can of gasoline or a handful of ammunition, Anya Taylor-Joy’s eyes sparkle as she fuels her revenge. A tortuous path which will subsequently lead her to redemption (in Fury Road, SO). In this, Furiosa: A Mad Max saga constitutes an essential addition. It is an extension that we did not necessarily suspect. Less inward, finer, almost more delicate in what he says.

If Mad Max: Fury Road took the form of a chase, with a round trip, in all directions, Furiosa: A Mad Max saga prefers to isolate pellets of bravery. The genius of George Miller then regains its rights. Unsurprisingly, he magnifies the art of the stunt by imagining sequences, each more astonishing than the last (Fury Road and its pole vaulters, Furiosa and his paratroopers).

His staging is cut with surgical precision, his cameras are placed to emphasize the heroism, his shots are brilliant. We take violence head-on, without any respite. And when we have a little moment to breathe, we end up just turning the other cheek. We ask for more, again and again, motivated by the desire to succumb to divine video and audio editing. We feel every impact, every acceleration, every braking with phenomenal power.

Extremely generous on the action part, Furiosa: A Mad Max saga allows itself to constantly reinvent the wheel. We were already saying it at the time of Fury Road : there are more ideas in a single scene of Furiosa than over a decade of generic films without any soul. More beautiful and rich than the trailers suggested, Furiosa: A Mad Max saga celebrates cinema at its noblest, showing the endless expanse of a desert where death lurks at every corner.

Less raw than Fury Road, also longer, it once again offers George Miller his favorite playground. He enjoys it like a kid, admittedly a sadist, discovering it for the first time. Furiosa: A Mad Max saga is a playground designed for adults with BDSM inclinations. Above all, it’s a show that makes you want to sit back and enjoy without ever feeling wronged, holding on to your seat. Basically, nothing makes you want to in Mad Max, but everything pushes us to immerse ourselves in it, decade after decade.

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