![Chris Hemsworth plays Dementus, a man who aims to become a more powerful figure in a world recently turned into a wasteland savaged by war in the prequel “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.” Photo Credit: Warner Bros.](/images/resized/images/news/2024/478_may31/11_100_100.jpg)
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Running Time: 148 minutes
This film from Warner Bros. opens exclusively at movie theaters on Friday, May 24.
Back in 1979, director George Miller created Mad Max, a dynamic little Australian action picture produced for well under $1 million. While the film became a massive success and went on to gross more than $100 million worldwide, even the filmmaker probably wouldn’t have anticipated creating several more hits based on this property. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a prequel and spin-off marking the fifth chapter in the series arriving some 45 years after the first picture.
For this reviewer, it rarely seems necessary to create a prequel that fills...