So based on comments here, I caught it, and I have to agree with everyone. Excellent action movie, worth the premium to see on the big screen. My thoughts are very similar to the Critical Drinkers review here. Not a preachy movie, Furiosa is not a Mary Sue, and well acted all around with really nice action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjUz0XF8498
My main criticism would be that the whole intro was 1. Well done. 2. WAY too long. This is a movie that should never have been over 2 hours for the theatrical cut, at least if you wanted it to make money, cut that intro down to 15 minutes, leave the rest for the directors cut. I simply don't believe movies have to be this long. Casablanca was 85min long, and if you wanted to remake it into a modern movie with a ton of action set pieces (Which God help me, they are going to do someday) you would only need a extra 35 min to add them. Two hours. Unless its Oppenheimer, that is enough.
As noted in this thread, pretty good movies are failing badly lately. I'd attribute that to a perfect storm, everyone knows they will be streaming soon, (And many people have no moral problems with pirating due to how much steaming services cost), inflation has made everything expensive and forced people to be more careful with luxury items, and the budgets are setting these movies up to fail. Furiosa's budget is listed as anywhere from 170-230 million, taking a median of 200 million and a 75 million dollar marketing budget (not included in the listed budget and often forgotten about) and the typical Studio/Theatre split, this had to make 500 million worldwide to break even, that was
never going to happen. This is a Mad Max movie, not Star Wars, honestly even a Star Wars movie would struggle to be profitable on that budget. On the flip side of that, being a Mad Max titled movie without Mad Max is a very small part, if any, of the box office failure. (Fury Road made about 10x as the previous movies in the series at 376 million and basically broke even)
Oh well, on the plus side, AIs will likely be able to make movies in the style of directors we like on the fly within 30 years. So we have that to look forward to.