I watched Furiosa last night on the plane, and managed to hear most of the dialog. The critics haven't been kind to this Mad Max universe episode. I liked it rather more than they did.
Anya Taylor-Joy has a very mannered, artificial, opaque, frankly odd-but-attractive public persona when interviewed. Maybe it's to show she's acting when she's filthy, wounded, clad in rags and crazy mad as she is in Furiosa.
The make up and costuming folks had fun with this, as did the mechanically creative who dreamed up the various outre' vehicles upon which much of the action hinges. The skeletal face masks and paint and whatever else that constituted their outfits were creative, well-executed, and imaginative in an S&M sort of way. Think psychotic bikers with a necrophiliac twist and you'll be close.
The male characters were a collection of testosterone-poisoned guys except those who were out-there perverts of various stripes. Everybody postures, everybody is tougher and sicker than the next guy, and absolutely nobody is reasonable or normal, though one or two come close, briefly. A couple of the guys had long hair a coed would envy, a la Fabio.
Mostly the characters are there to make the action scenes work and they do. The stuff's fun to watch, if you're able to suspend belief. You'll like it or hate it, I doubt there is any middle ground with this flick.
