George MillersFury Roadsequel is bleaker and more fantastical than you might expect.
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As the world falls around us, how must we bear its cruelties?
These are the End Times, and they are the End People.
SomeFury Roadfans may have forgotten this bleak truth, but Miller clearly wants to remind them (us).
Everything in this movie is always on the verge of running out and dying out.
Of course, the firstMad Max, made in 1979, wasnt really a postapocalyptic story.
Thus, Miller took a personal tragedy and turned it into a civilizational one.
This series was born under the sign of grief, and continues to live there.
Therons performance will still be the yardstick, but its hard not to be moved by Taylor-Joys transformation.
Millers work (including his non-Maxfilms) has often featuredcharacters trying to find, or maintain, surrogate families.
Dementus makes bizarre gestures toward the same, treating Furiosa with a bizarre mixture of paternalism and savagery.
Hemsworth plays him as a peacocking incompetent, which in most movies would drain the character of danger.
But in theMad Maxuniverse, such buffoonery is often a prelude to unspeakable evil.
Thats not to say thatFuriosaisnt thrilling in its own right.
Action sequences charge forward and build and build, casually leaving all manner of bodies in their wake.
It even has chapter breaks, not exactly a gear one regularly encounters in wannabe summer blockbusters.
So, what will peoplethink?
To be clear,Furiosalooks fantastic.
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