Furiosa: A Mad Max saga

 Released in 2024, Furiosa is the first film in the Mad Max series that doesn't feature our road warrior.

Instead, it is a spin-off prequel to Fury Road, focussing on the origin of Furiosa from that movie.

And while it came highly rated by critics, gained multiple awards... I just found it plain boring, struggling to stay awake as we watched it...

Decades after the apocalypse has taken place, the Green Place of Many Mothers is the last vestige of fresh water and agriculture in Australia.  But the place is discovered by raiders, and Furiosa is taken along with them to see Dementus of the Biker Horde, as they want her to reveal the location of where she came from.

Her mother pursues them and breaks her out, but they are caught and Mary is crucified by the bikers, Dementus adopting Furiosa as his own daughter.  Later, he besieges The Citadel, but his Horde is repelled by the War Boys of Immortan Joe.  dementus then focusses instead on taking over Gastown, and they reach a truce.  Furiosa is handed over to Immortan Joe as part of the deal, for the star map she has tattooed on her arm.

For over a decade, she works her way up amongst the ranks of his War Boys, and helps build the heavily armed and armoured War Rig.  Together with Joe's top driver, Praetorian Jack, she manages to keep the Rig save from an assault, and he recognizes her potential, training her to become a Praetorian herself.  They form a bond and want to escape together, and when ordered to collect weapons and ammo from Bullet Farm, they find the place also taken over by Dementus who wants to overthrow Immortan Joe.

They are chased, and jack is killed by Dementus while she has to cut off her own arm in order to escape, sacrificing her star map.  She warns Joe and they set a trap for Dementus, the War Boys crushing his horde.  She catches up with the fleeing Dementus in order to get her revenge from him, turning him into a living soil fertilizer to grow the seed of a peach tree her mother had given to her...

So yes, it was as brutal as any movie in the series, but I couldn't escape a feeling of the movie being just dragging out to long at times.  So sadly no, I was not wild about it as some are...