Movie review
May 22, 2024 · 149 min · R
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
The movie follows a young girl snatched from the all-female Green Place of Many Mothers and forced into the male biker horde and Immortan Joe's citadel. She hides her gender, trains as a warrior, and spends the entire runtime driving revenge against the warlords who treat women as breeders and property. The narrative engine is her girl power survival and rise in the brutal male wasteland the whole way through.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
Woke representation / casting
Female lead with strong warrior arc from all-female community in male wasteland.
Woke political dialogue
No activist dialogue.
Identity-driven story themes
Core story is girl's transformation into warrior seeking revenge against male tyrants after abduction from mothers.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Male warlords depicted as tyrants exploiting women as breeders in dystopian setting.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
Some backlash over girlboss female lead and no Max in Mad Max movie.
Creator track record context
George Miller and Nico Lathouris have feminist track record from Fury Road.
Production
