Furiosa – A Mad Max Saga: Thrilling prequel in George Miller’s bonkers badlands

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'Furiosa' delivers a thrilling spectacle. Photo: Warner Bros

Hilary White

They drive all the way over here, and then they drive all the way over there. It’s the bare nuts and bolts of Mad Max: Fury Road, and yet there was no question that George Miller’s gnarly 2015 monster was anything other than a gold-plated classic when it roared into view.

More than any of the three previous Mad Max instalments, Fury Road had a sweep and spectacle to it that delivered a sustained operatic kilter. Out went Mel Gibson, in came extraordinary action set-pieces, widescreen location filming (in the deserts of Namibia) and, in Charlize Theron’s ­Furiosa, an iconic heroine to prevail in Miller’s bonkers badlands.