Enjoyable if tiring early-summer season popcorn film. In some ways less violent and gritty than Mr. Miller's first two Mad Max films (all the way back in the late 1970s and early 1980s), and in some ways, much more so.

Really all Furiosa is, is fast-paced car racing/motorcycle tricks through the desert, nothing very deep here on an intellectual level. But I suppose that's what most of the audience for this movie expects. I still find the stunt work of Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior (1981) to be the best in the entire (as of now five-film) franchise, simply because at least those were real, along with some practical-effects camera work. In Furiosa, there is a lot of obvious-- not just CGI --but straight-up animation of the car/motorcycle stunt work. A lot of fake flames, fewer actual conflagrations/explosions as compared to the 1981 movie.

It's really quite something in the future, that you can have all of these cars and motorcycles running, despite the lack of spare parts and technical know-how (most people's brains are fried by this point), but also, because these vehicles are constantly driven, and driven HARD. Slammed around, driven at high-speed, and taking beating after beating. And yet those transmissions, starters, and fuel injectors keep on going.

And I've written before about how quickly people's names get weird changes, and clothing styles go to the extreme.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga--

Entertaining, yet exhausting to keep up with, and stretches the suspension of disbelief. I was merciful and gave it a 7 out of 10 (the same as I gave Fury Road), but below Mad Max (1979) with its 8 and Mad Max 2/The Road Warrior with its 9. Better than Beyond Thunderdome, but I think most Mad Max fans would agree that's not saying much.