Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga has received its first reactions from critics – and it already sounds like it's a hit.
The anticipated prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road stars Anya Taylor-Joy as a younger version of Imperator Furiosa, who is taken from the Green Place of Many Mothers by a biker gang run by the Warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth).
Ahead of its release in cinemas on May 24, those lucky few to have already seen Furiosa have taken to Twitter to share their first reactions on the new movie.
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"Brings me great joy to report that Furiosa is really, really f***ing good," wrote IndieWire's David Ehrlich. "Operates in an extremely different gear than Fury Road (in ways that I suspect will frustrate some people), but also manages to make that movie even richer while carving its own legend in the wasteland."
Fandango's Erik Davis also had high praise for the film and its leading stars, writing: "A ferocious and relentlessly paced epic that expands the story of Furiosa and the Wasteland while delivering the craziest chases, the most bombastic characters and just plain stunning cinematography.
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"Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth equally dive all the way into the Wasteland, and both deliver some incredible stuff. There's one War Rig sequence that blew my mind – an instant classic. I love the Mad Max movies and I loved this film. Start your engines!"
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Josh Horowitz said that Furiosa is "not trying to be" Fury Road and is "uniquely gnarly and yes, epic", while John Nguyen described it as "2-and-a-half hours of colorful mayhem" and "one of the most brutal Mad Max films yet".
"Now that I can say so, Furiosa is a BLAST! Made in the spirit of Fury Road, it's still its own beast that thrives on exaggerated action and characters," added The AU Review's Peter Gray. "Anya Taylor-Joy makes the character her own, but this is Chris Hemsworth's chance to prove his worth as a character actor."
Furiosa also stars The Lazarus Project's Tom Burke, Insidious' Angus Sampson and The Punisher's Daniel Webber.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will be released on May 24.
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