I saw it yesterday. There were only about 40 people in the audience at the 4:30 Saturday show. It was a smaller discount theater, so maybe everybody else was at the big AMC or Regal nearby?
I was a bit underwhelmed, plot-wise, considering the length. Good special effects, though. Made me want to go re-watch Road Warrior. But I wasn’t a big fan of Fury Road, so I’m probably not the target audience.
I thoroughly enjoyed it; the movie’s downfall is that it’s going to be compared to Fury Road, which is unfortunate. Having rewatched Fury Road a couple of times since being blown away in the theaters, I think it benefits from the “wow” factor of seeing it for the first time. On rewatch there are some cracks, and I think we see those same cracks watching Furiosa the first time through because we already know to expect a lot of the visuals.
More thoughts:
I know George Miller doesn’t really care about the timeline of the Mad Max series, and it’s really not important to enjoy the movies. But it’s a bit distracting at times when the action slows down and you start to think. Max Rocketansky was a grown adult cop in his debut movie (Mel Gibson was 23). The Road Warrior came out 2 years later, and maybe we’re meant to think a bit more time has passed to justify the complete collapse of civilization.
Tom Hardy was 38 when Fury Road came out, and Charlize Theron was 40. Furiosa should remember the before times, and the movie never gives us any indication that she doesn’t.
The Furiosa timeline, however, is much more condensed towards the present. Furiosa was evidently born after the collapse, and then grows from about the age of 9 to however old she was in Fury Road over the course of this single movie. Meanwhile, this post-apocalyptic wasteland stays largely unchanged during this period.
It’s also unclear how anyone outside of the Citadel or it’s satellite facilities could possible survive. Any marauders not under Immortan Joe’s protection seem unlikely to be able to procure water. The Green Place from the beginning of Furiosa becomes a swamp by the events of Fury Road.
In any case, I’m content during these movies to turn my brain off and have fun, but when they slow down, the thoughts start to creep up.
Wow, what a great film. Knew what I was getting into since hearing about the basic premise years ago and being a fan of George Miller’s wasteland universe it did not disappoint.
While Fury Road had the benefit of a linear storyline taking place over the course of maybe a week following the action on a there and back roadtrip, Furiosa covers multiple missions to multiple places over many years.
It was almost too much to take in and digest the first time around and by the time a few of the main characters started making speeches at the 2:20 mark I may have been getting squirmy. I think on repeated viewings I will enjoy it more and appreciate some of the finer details without getting exhausted.
So many cool parts though. Young Immortan Joe is much more menacing.
It’s easily the best film I’ve seen this year. Am I wrong in thinking that there are more minutes of road battle in this film than any of the previous Mad Max movies? Ultimately, that is what drives (heh) most us into the theater to see these films.
There has to be more in Fury Road, right?
If there are, they certainly aren’t as varied as the ones in Furiosa.
So how good is Hemsworth in this flick? Is he an effective baddie?
It’s a good performance, sometimes a little hammy but it works.
Yeah, it’s almost a Christoph Waltz worthy hammy. Perfect for a Mad Max film.
I would say real hammy, and it works great. Wonderful role.
I am seeing a very clear difference you and my local movie reviewer who despises repeated mindless action and consequently disliked the movie quite a bit 
. I enjoy them at first then kinda burn out on them after awhile (for example Ronin could have done with a bit less IMHO), so when I finally watch this one on free cable eventually I suspect it will be a mixed bag for me. Probably somewhere between you and that interminable action film-adverse reviewer. I liked Fury Road, but didn’t love it, so even more furious road might be a bit of a let down.
Loved it, maybe more than Fury Road. Speaking of, the little girl they had play Little D was giving 100% young Charlize Theron 0% young Anya Taylor Joy.
Holy shit, that ruled. RULED!!
Hemsworth was a great villain. Anya Taylor Joy channeled Charlize Theron effectively. The action kicked all the ass. I have to calm down to think about it more clearly.
I like to support movies I really like so I went to see it again and took another friend. So many details packed into it that you pick up the second time through. Before the war rig was attacked by the “rogue” group that was led by the Octoboss they panned up from the Imortan Joe insignia painted on the pavement. Didn’t notice the first time but the rogues painted the Octoboss’ trademark horns onto the insignia.
A lot jammed into the 2-1/2 hours.
I saw this movie yesterday at the theater, and a double toast to Anya Taylor-Joy for her performance as Furiosa. Her intensity and the intensity of the movie in general had me enthralled the entire time.
A cautionary word: The setting is a post apocalyptic setting, and the violence and harshness is extremely vivid.
Is this your first Road Warrior movie? 
Saw it yesterday. I’m glad I saw it in a theater, although I was very tired from a friends birthday celebration the night before. I enjoyed it very much. Made me want to re-watch Fury Road. I thought Anya Taylor Joy did a fantastic job, and the actress that played the child Furiosa was great as well.
The most grisly scene was already telegraphed by the character’s handicap(?) in Fury Road. The audience was waiting for that scene, and when it finally happened it wasn’t as bad as we expected.
Does anybody know the time stamp when the title character actually has a line of dialogue? It must be well past the halfway mark.
I saw it today. I didn’t like it as much as I’d hoped. I was so excited about it that this has put me in a bad mood.
I thought the casting and acting were great, the dialog passable with occasional shining moments (like the final conversation at the end.) There were a few sequences I really liked. It’s always fun to see what bonkers mechanics this world will come up with next, like parasailers attacking the rig. It’s the incomprehensibility of this ridiculous world that I love.
I knew this movie might be paced differently than Fury Road and I was prepared for that. What I was not prepared for was incoherent storytelling. I was especially disappointed with the first third or so. It was almost like two different films, or the story didn’t really begin until the midpoint. By the time it got interesting, I had already checked out.
I didn’t really feel a need to go deeper into the lore and world-building, because the harder you look at the world of Mad Max the less sense it makes. Trying to make it make sense did not do it any favors. So while I’m supposed to be engrossed in badass action (which there was less of) all I could do was sit there and nitpick everything. Because I didn’t care about the story. It didn’t help that I found the plot details very hard to follow. I never understood why Furiosa was doing any specific thing other than some nebulous goal of revenge.
The scenes with her companion were among the most compelling, but I think his character was mostly wasted opportunity.
I’m curious what editing the film down by about 30 minutes would have looked like. Possibly a lot more coherent.