Not bad. Hollywood keeps cranking out genderbent and female-led franchises and movies, but they keep falling flat because they think that just turning the MC female is enough.
Furiosa is an actual compelling MC that happens to be female; that's how it should be done. Sad though that the movie bombed at the box office.
I do think the ending was a bit weird when they suddenly did a time jump, which made the climax feel somewhat underwhelming.
W take. I love strong female leads in anything. especially videogames. The stereotypical brute male is tiresome at this point and so overdone.
However I agree that when it comes to a point to FORCE female lead into the mix and there is almost no development just "here's this badass chick you wanted. Your taste is included now piss off", its going to be ass. They also just kinda swap what is the backstory of said typical heroic man and put a female in their place. That also doesnt work especially when you are making an already built character such as one from comics that you literally just need to adhere to the story and the character already wrote itself. but its lost in today's age.
So I agree with all your sentiments. I know nothing about the Mad Max story. I just like post apocalyptic themes. So I thought i would give it a shot and it kind of incorporated everything i wanted in a movie like that + a little sprinkled in humor which I actually didnt mind. I think the characger development was A1 but I don't think it should have been crammed into one movie which goes along the lines of how you said that time skip kinda thru it off. And it did. I didnt mind it, but needless to say it could have obviously been better. It would have been a better overall experience over the span of two movies I think especially if they wanted to expand on the villains more. They had material for it. Simply just with Immortan Joe and Dementus.
All that said, I had fun watching the movie. Couldn't give it a bad rating if I tried. Character development was peak, acting was great, scene-setting was absolute cinema, I loved it.
