“Do you have it in you to make it epic?” asks crazed antagonist Dementus (Chris Hemsworth buried under a prosthetic nose, riotous beard, and pejazzled codpiece) of heroine Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) as their fury roads intersect in a blaze of flames. No need to ask such a question of director George Miller, whose prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road not only soups up the iconic War Rig but supersizes the story, mythology, scorching desert-scapes, and, yes, action set pieces in an attempt to dwarf that 2015 masterpiece.
Fury Road, the fourth instalment in Miller’s franchise (which dates back to 1979’s DIY Ozploitation classic Mad Max), had a lean-machine plot threading its outrageous vehicular mayhem. This fifth outing goes deeper and wider to give us the coming-of-rage origin story of Fury Road’s Furiosa.
