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Stunning, But ‘Mad Max’ Prequel Is No ‘Fury Road’

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Stunning, But 'Mad Max' Prequel Is No 'Fury Road'

The primary reactions are right here for George Miller’s newest enterprise into the post-apocalyptic wasteland.

The embargo broke for social media reactions to Furiosa, the eagerly anticipated prequel to the 2015 stunner Mad Max: Fury Highway.

This new entry has Anya Taylor-Pleasure as Imperator Furiosa (taking on for Charlize Theron) and Chris Hemsworth as a devious warlord in a narrative that takes place 15 years earlier than the earlier movie.

Early social reactions can typically be a bit completely different (sometimes extra enthusiastic) than official critic critiques, and absolutely there are lots of extra to come back quickly. However based mostly on the primary batch Monday night, Furisoa is a visible stunner with “ferocious, wild and unrelenting” motion and a narrative that “spans many years,” with sturdy performances from the 2 leads.

Those that examine the movie to Fury Highway, nonetheless, did so with a little bit of qualification. Furisoa is in “a unique gear” and “received’t match Fury Highway’s splendor” in a manner that “would possibly frustrate” some audiences. One critic stated Furiosa felt extra like the primary two Mad Max movies (which is humorous, as a result of when Fury Highway was launched, some initially griped that the movie wasn’t sufficient like the primary two Mad Max movies).

Totally different than is just not essentially dangerous, nonetheless, and this could be a case of viewers having a troublesome time shaking off their expectations going into the theater (the Furiosa trailers, in spite of everything, promote the brand new movie as being somewhat precisely like Fury Highway). In any case, many take into account Fury Highway among the finest motion movies ever made — definitely among the finest this century — so any comparability, even one the place Furiosa comes up a notch or two quick, remains to be complimentary.

Try a number of the first reactions under. Furiosa opens in theaters Could 24.

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