I was surprised by how good it was myself. When I heard the news they were making a Furiosa spinoff rather than a proper Mad Max sequel, I was concerned it was gonna be the typical woke, man-hating SJW action film that portrays all men as either scum or morons that's all too common these days. Surprisingly, this was not the case, as Furiosa is even less woke than Fury Road (a film that I don't think deserves being dumped on as a "feminist flick", anyway) and is instead, merely a balls-to-the wall action film that serves as a nice companion piece to the last Mad Max film.
The only thing I didn't like was the overabundance of CGI. Some folks decried Fury Road for supposedly being too CGI-heavy (Rob Ager), but in that film, they used it to mainly enhance shots/environments that were already there whereas in Furiosa, it seems like they used CGI more often than not in place of real stunts and locations. Maybe Miller at his age just can't handle shooting extensively in the blazing hot sun while also coordinating complex action sequences anymore, I don't know.
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