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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Review

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Graham Craycraft   Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the latest project for the Mad Max franchise and the first that does not feature Max Rockatansky as the central character. George Miller continues his impressive world building with this fifth edition into the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland.   Furiosa (the titular character for this film) is the secondary protagonist of 2015’s Mad Max Fury Road which was both a box office and critical smash. Played by Charlize Theron in 2015, this prequel sees Anya Taylor-Joy take the reins. From a young girl Furiosa grows up under the grueling regime of the Wasteland as a slave to later become the imperator of Immortan Joe in Fury Road . We see some returning figures such as Immortan Joe and his half-life war boys, but we are introduced to a new villain Dementus, played by Chris Hemsworth, and his gang of marauders.   Hemsworth and Taylor-Joy both kill their performances. Hemsworth is cruel, funny, and destructive. Taylor...