I find "Mad Max" to be an odder film than other people. Basically a revenge film, the murder that Max is avenging doesn't actually happen till near the end of the film, giving a rather perfunctory impetus to the plot (and meaning that he spends most of the film sane). No one can deny however how stylish the film is. Set in an Australia where the police are struggling to keep a grip on a society that is in the process of disintegrating, Max finds himself battling against a group of road hooligans I won't deny that I found parts of the film exciting, but I have to confess that I also found myself exploited in a way that I don't usually feel with this kind of film. As I already knew that Max was supposed to be avenging his wife I spent most of the film waiting for her to die, so that he can go off to kill the bad guys - and presumably the story was set in this anarchic future so that he actually can kill them, rather than arrest them and put them on trial. For this reason I find "Mad Max" one of the more disturbing sf films - and I'm not totally convinced it deserves to be thought of as an sf film, since its future setting seems to me to be an add-on.
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Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
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