Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – Anya Taylor-Joy is tremendous as chase resumes

y childhood! My mother! I want them back!” With this howl of anguish, young Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, sets the tone of vengeful rage that runs through George Miller’s immersive, spectacular prequel to his.

Furiosa is the origin story of the glamorous, one-armed badass from the first film. Incidentally, I haven’t seen an arm loss like this since 11-year-old midshipman Blakeney got his amputated aboard ship in– and he made a bit more of a fuss about it than Furiosa. It is of course set in Australia’s vast post-apocalyptic wilderness where warlords in their various compounds rule over precious reserves of food, water, ammo and fuel.

Now her younger self is played by Taylor-Joy as a fierce young warrior-survivor who effectively fulfils the action role originally played by Mad Max. Furiosa was a kid who was once part of a quiet community of souls in an obscure but richly fertile oasis, a progressive, peaceable place which literally had wind turbines. She is kidnapped and winds up enslaved by Doctor Dementus, a strangely hilarious villain played bywith long hair and a dodgy prosthetic nose.

Hemsworth comes very close to pinching the whole film, but Miller keeps a lid on humour as that kind of comic flex can sometimes upend it all. Hemsworth really is very entertaining when Dementus insists on tasting Furiosa’s desolate tears because he has heard that tears of sadness have a different flavour to tears of joy. Dabbing them on his tongue, he muses: “Sorrow is more piquant – zesty!” He pronounces it: “Pee–kwant” which somehow makes it much worse.

In a sense, Dementus is a character artificially contrived to give Furiosa someone to face off with, a warlord distinct from Immortan Joe. But Taylor-Joy and Hemsworth are a great pairing and Taylor-Joy is an overwhelmingly convincing action heroine. She sells this sequel.

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