Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga<\/a>, a film that not only fires up its motor, but slams its foot on the accelerator and rarely lets up.<\/p>\nThe fifth film in Miller\u2019s long-running post-apocalyptic saga, it\u2019s the first without Max Rockatansky, the Road Warrior played by Mel Gibson in the original trilogy and Tom Hardy in 2015\u2019s Mad Max: Fury Road.<\/p>\n
Instead, the focus is Furiosa, Fury Road\u2019s badass female (originally played by Charlize Theron) who masterminded an escape from the Citadel for her and a posse of women belonging to the foul ruler Immortan Joe.<\/p>\n
Divided into five chapters, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga spans the 15 years before Fury Road, bringing us the titular heroine\u2019s origin story.<\/p>\n
Played by Alyla Browne in these early scenes, the young Furiosa is captured and taken to Dementus (Chris Hemsworth), a man as demented as his name suggests.<\/p>\n
After torturing and killing her mother in front of her, he wants Furiosa to lead him to her home, an idyllic land of plenty far from the Wasteland, the parched wilderness where inhabitants fight for the precious little food, water and petrol that exists.<\/p>
Refusing to speak, Furiosa stays mute, although things change when Dementus and his men rock up to the Citadel in the hope of toppling Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme).<\/p>\n
After a stand-off, Dementus is forced to give over Furiosa to prevent all-out war. From here, Miller shifts the action on a good few years \u2013 with one of the most brilliant \u2018passing of time\u2019 transitions you\u2019ll ever see, involving a branch and a discarded hairpiece \u2013 with Furiosa now a young woman (with Last Night in Soho\u2019s Anya Taylor-Joy replacing Browne).<\/p>\n