George Miller's Furiosa a great looking but strange prequel

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The Mad Max saga continues, without Mad Max, in director/writer George Miller's latest epic, Furiosa. And though it's pretty weird, and sometimes very cruel, it's well worth at least a look.

Furiosa is set before the last Mad Max outing, Fury Road, and stars Anya Taylor-Young as the title character, with Chris Hemsworth, sounding more Australian than he probably does even in real life, as her main nemesis, a pompous and rather socialist warlord called Dementus, who has dreams of dominating the wasted lands of the wasteland.

But before Furiosa meets Dementus, we find her living in the kind of perfect, idyllic green world the eco-nuts dream of, an oasis from the wasteland where there's lots of water, plenty of animals, and all the electricity needed comes, apparently, from a few lazily-spinning windmills that obviously survived the eco-apocalypse that destroyed the world.

Fortunately, that's about all the eco-beating-over-the-head we get, though there's plenty of "misogynistic" stuff to come as well, when Furiosa finds herself prisoner in a land operated and dominated by the alpha males, who keep women around to have babies and/or provide milk. Kind of like, I daresay, the "progressives" think the 1950's were like…