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Furiosa is a leaner, meaner Mad Max story


Furiosa is a more artful return to the world of Mad Max.

Though Furiosa can’t initially perceive it, there’s a distinct difference between the cultures of Dementus’ horde and that of the Citadel where Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme) rules his fanatic War Boys and enforcers like Praetorian Jack (Tom Burke). But as the film brings the Biker Horde and the War Boys together in a prolonged power struggle, Dementus starts to feel more like a character stitched together from leftover ideas for Immortan Joe that didn’t make it into Fury Road or the 2015 Mad Max video game. But Furiosa ’s characterization of Immortan Joe and his mutilated failsons Scrotus (Josh Helman) and Erectus (Nathan Jones) does so much more to make the movie feel like an organic extension of Fury Road rather than a fancy new limb grafted on in response to the earlier film’s success.

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