Anya Taylor-Joy As Furiosa
Anya Taylor-Joy plays Furiosa. She's the main person in the story. Furiosa gets taken by a very strong leader after the world gets really messed up. She tries very hard to get away from him and his friends who ride motorcycles.
Chris Hemsworth As Warlord Dementus
Chris Hemsworth plays Warlord Dementus. He's one of the bad guys who doesn't like Furiosa. Dementus leads a group of motorcycle riders who catch Furiosa. He's not like Thor, the superhero Chris Hemsworth usually plays. Dementus fights another leader named Immortan Joe to be the boss.
Tom Burke As Praetorian Jack
Tom Burke plays Praetorian Jack. He's a driver who helps Furiosa. Praetorian Jack likes Furiosa and wants to help her get away. He seems like he's really brave.
Lachy Hulme As Immortan Joe
Lachy Hulme plays Immortan Joe. He's the big boss of a place called The Citadel. Immortan Joe is in charge of a group called the War Boys. He fights against Dementus to be in charge.
Nathan Jones As Rictus Erectus
Nathan Jones plays Rictus Erectus. He's Immortan Joe's big, mean son. Rictus Erectus is very strong and not nice. He was in another Mad Max movie before.
Alyla Browne As Young Furiosa
Alyla Browne plays young Furiosa. This is Furiosa when she was a kid. Dementus' friends take her from her home. She has to figure out how to stay alive in a very tough world.
Josh Helman As Scrotus
Josh Helman plays Scrotus. He's another one of Immortan Joe's sons. Scrotus is a bad guy who was in a different Mad Max movie.
John Howard As The People Eater
John Howard plays The People Eater. He's a friend of Immortan Joe. The People Eater is in charge of the gas in Gas Town.
Angus Sampson As Organic Mechanic
Angus Sampson plays The Organic Mechanic. He's a doctor who helps people in the wasteland. The Organic Mechanic does things in a strange way.
Charlee Fraser As Mary Jo Bassa
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Charlee Fraser plays Mary Jo Bassa. She's Furiosa's mom. Furiosa really looks up to her. Mary Jo Bassa is very strong and good at fighting.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a film that tells the story of young Furiosa, who is taken from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great biker horde led by The Warlord Dementus. Furiosa as she navigates through the wasteland, encountering The Citadel, presided over by Immortan Joe and As they fight for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she tries to find her way home.
The film's storytelling takes a very different approach to presenting the narrative. Anya Taylor-Joy is the title character, origin of the character we meet in "Fury Road," by Charlize Theron. The world-building here is amazing, providing much more context for everything than we have in any of the more recent films. The wasteland has true character thanks to how much we get to see of Gas Town, The Bullet Farm, and The Citadel. Each landscape is gritty and unique in its own way, with leaders who are eccentrically presented to showcase the derangement and hubris of each.
Furiosa is a very sympathetic character almost from the start, so it's easy to follow her and root for her. This is where the movie is at its best and its best because it is patient and calculated in her pursuit of revenge. She is intelligent about her decisions and choices, not rushing with blind rage into a situation that will get her killed. Instead, she uses her cunning and smarts to look at all the different scenarios in front of her and then choose the one with the best likely outcome.
Taylor-Joy is stoic and quiet through much of this, but we can see all the rage, fear, anger, and drive in her expressive eyes. Hemsworth is just as expressive but intensely demonstrative in his presentation. There's nothing subtle about his thoughts or motivations, which is exactly what you need for a nomadic warlord of the wasteland. Immortan Joe is menacing just in visual presence, but Dementus has a showmanship quality that adds a tiny bit of quirky levity to his delivery.
The action is not non-stop, but when we get the sequences, they are frenetic, immersive, explosive, and a lot of fun to watch. There are many similarities to what we saw in "Fury Road," with war boys taking on acrobatic stunts, swinging off trucks with explosive spears, or spraying their mouths silver before taking on a deadly activity. The fire, explosions, and the visuals with vibrant oranges and blacks are just stunning.
The variety of vehicles we see is also amazing, with Dementus riding a chariot that is amazing to watch, and there's also a black flowing set piece that adds a terrifying dread and malevolence to a sequence.
Anya Taylor-Joy convincingly executes the action and drama of her character, using her big blue eyes to convey needed emotion when the rest of her face is obscured. Chris Hemsworth acts really well as a big, mean war leader who thinks he's better than everyone else. He's smart, mean, and charming all at once, making the bad guy interesting and a bit likeable, even though he's still bad. The stylized action and effects are immersive, thanks to vibrant colors and enveloping camera movements. 2 hours and 28 minutes length movie, there is no sex or nudity, some profanity, and a ton of violence.