Mark Kermode reviews Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - Kermode and Mayo's Take

Kermode has built up trust over so many years and he watches everything from Hollywood to obscure European folk horror - he has my respect.

“David Lean after doing a line of diesel” is going to live rent-free in my head for the ready of my life. chef’s kiss

I've compared them to Fury Road being your favourite heavy metal album and Furiosa is the experimental, proggy follow up. Both incredible.

The best comparison between these two movies I've heard is that Fury Road is like Kill Bill vol. 1 and Furiosa is Kill Bill vol. 2. The first is more action heavy, the second is more thematic.

Chris Hemsworth was having SO MUCH fun here. So much of Anya Taylor-Joy’s performance being non-verbal was interesting.

I LOVED IT! Well worth seeing on a big screen with great sound. Magnificent.

Mark having that Gang Of Four album on his wall makes me very happy 😊

Mark Kermode would be the kind of guy to hang a Gang of Four vinyl in his room.

Just got back, very enjoyable. Go watch it

I remember, a very long time ago, I was to meet my sister after she got off work to help her carry some stuff home, but I got the time wrong and had 3 hours to kill, so I looked at the posters of a cinema and saw Mad Max, I didn't know a thing about it or any of the actors (Mel Gibson) but as a 13-year-old I thought the poster was cool, so in I went, MY HEAD WAS BLOWN, and I loved the cinema ever since.

Just out from seeing Furiosa and my only negative was the overuse of CGI. And it's more noticeable than in Fury Road. Still, it's a great dystopian romp which I immensely enjoyed.

Loved it. Not only the action parts - which are basically a silent movie with sound, just like Sorcerer - but also the writing. And that is coming from the guy who usually is the first to get the giggles when an otherwise silly action films go for pathos. But Chris Hemsworth's shakespearian monologue about the futility of revenge is actually excellent.

“Petrolhead Odyssey” 😂😂😂

saw this on the 23rd and there's so much going on that scenes pop into my head and cause me to wonder.

Watched it yesterday in a 4DX movie theater. Highly recommend it, and that comes from somebody that was pretty lukewarm to the idea of a Fury Road prequel , as well as the first trailer. As mentioned here, it gives you room to breath ( compared to Fury Road) and you can sense Miller achieving his best to lay down the world building and inject the very specific vibe of the old Mad Max movies. Something that is pretty much lost nowadays. So yeah - if we want more of these movies to be made, we need to support them.

Sparks AND Sorcerer in the same frame? Brilliant!

Mark and Simon sold me on seeing this and I'm so happy I did. Amazing film, great franchise, drive don't walk!

Please for the love of God people, please go see the film

An absolute riot of action and quality performances really enjoyed it....

Yes, Furiosa blew me away.. what.a spectacular film.. but here are a few things I wish GM would've expanded more on: 1) Dementus filling in as a father figure for young Furiosa. After all he did protect her from his marauding gang and took care of her as his children that he lost, and at the end when Furiosa was about to end him, GM should've have him say I've treated you as my daugther, and Furiosa shedding tears of sadness as she knew that's the truth; 2) Expanded on the 40-day war, but of course that would add another 30 min to the movie runtime; 3) Expanded on the Green Place: yes, the Green place was thru the eyes of a child and it looked bigger that it actually was, because it's all thru the memory of a young child; 4) Furiosa losing her arm with the map tattoed on it.. This eludes to in FR that they did not find the Green Place because she only based on the location of the GP from memory, and they never found it in FR, -or- one of the marauders took Furiosa's arm, discovered the map, found the GP and destroyed it; 5) more interaction between Dementus and Inmortan Joe: oh yeah the arrogance of Dementus and how Inmortan Joe put him in his place; 6) Expand on some hints that Dementus would want to get back his adopted daughter Furiosa.. I think he has shown his love to her like his child, that's why he called her his Little Bee a term of endearment to his kids; and 7) This movie could easily run over 2 1/2 hours long, and. I was satisfied getting all the open questions from FR answered here..