Mad Max (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: High tension slightly futuristic style film with loads of thrills
Disadvantages: None

Mad Max. = The Story ~~~~~~~~~~ A film set the in the future when there is starting to become a fuel shortage. We join the film watching two pursuit officers chasing Night Rider, a cop killer and his woman as they drive uncontrollable across state in a mad crazed mood. The chase continued for a few miles and now we see another pursuit car join the chase. Suddenly the first pursuit car spins out of control and is sent flying off the ... Read review

Advantages: mel, acting, violence, plot....
Disadvantages: none

Mad Max is known as the film that made Mel Gibson as an actor, but its a damn good film as well. The theme is your normal near future societal breakdown, but this film does his in a highly convincing and believeable way, without falling into the trap of introducing too many technogadgets, and funky new words. they stick to bad 80s hair and unrestrained violence, in a world on the edge of anarchy. There is something about Max that means you either ... Read review

Advantages: great film
Disadvantages: started mel gibson

This is a great film made on a low budget with a group of then unknown actors altho' the male lead has gone since to make it biggish ( ha ha) in hollywood. set in a post apocolyptic world where the rules are basically take what you can and run if you can't win. The star of the film is a regenade cop/ bounty hunter who is close to the edge of sanity especially when his mate get hit by some loon motorcycle gang. then there is a trail of mayhem destruction ... Read review

Advantages: Excellently done post-apocalyptic nightmare
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Mad Max is an excellent film, despite the fact that it kickstarted Mel Gibson's career. It features a violent post-apocalyptic desert world in which we follow a loner's attempts to survive in a cruel world populated by tribes, some of whom are peaceful and others decidedly are not, and the people he meets, fights and bonds with. Furthermore, Max is described as 'Mad' because he is driven by a desperate need to avenge his family's murder, which is ... Read review

Advantages: great action, great stunts
Disadvantages: small budget, avoid american re-dubbed version

Opals, fosters and Mad Max. Not a lot of good stuff comes out of Australia so savour this :) (apologies to any austalians). This original and creative low budget movie was something of a landmark of the genre. The first film to star Mel Gibson (before he became scottish :braveheart:) Mad Max is set in the near future where civilisation has descended into anarchy and chaos. Max is a good cop who is fed up with his job trying to protect people from ... Read review

Advantages: GRIPPING FAST EXCITING COMPELLING ACTION
Disadvantages: OTHER TWO SEQUELS

The First Mad Max (1979) is the best, the sequels are Mad Max 2 (the road warrior) and Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdome which did not in my opinon live up to the intoxicating First Mad Max THE FILM Future Australia has last most of it's law and order,highways have been overturned by violent motorcycle gang's and Police moral is at an all time low. Mel Gibson plays.Mad Max Rocktansky a tough Police cop who want's out,to be free from the hellraising ... Read review

Advantages: Mel Gibsons first action film, Dark and menacing road movie.
Disadvantages: Quite dated now and noticebly low budget.

...of 3 movies in the mad max trilogy. It is essentially a low budget, futuristic thriller which benefited from the presence of one Mel Gibson, a then struggling Australian actor who was propelled to stardom with this vehicle. He plays Max Rockatansky, a police officer who patrols a futuristic landscape with his partner "Goose" (Steve Bisley) preventing a criminal motorcycle gang who terrorise the area by stealing,raping and killing any passers by on ... Read review

Advantages: great acting and casting
Disadvantages: none

...was the first in the Mad Max trilogy of films. It was the one to launch Mel Gibson's career. He played the maverick road cop who did battle with the marauding biker gangs. The movie was low budget but an excellant plot and superb casting brought this movie to life. The characters and action sequences far weighed the sequel and the dire Hollywood "Beyond The Thunderdome" with Tina Turner was dreadful. The original and the best of the three. ... Read review

Advantages: Very good action movie
Disadvantages: Not a very complex plot

...family. Max becomes mad, hence Mad Max, and seeks revenge on the murderers. Mad Max is a fast-paced movie that does not have a superb plot, but is enriched by the superb action and cinema-togrophy. Mel Gibson, an unknown Australian actor at the time, moves his career into high-gear with a gutsy performance as the revenge seeking Mad Max. The movie is a little frightening at times, as it is possible to see the future could be very similar to ... Read review

Advantages: MEL GIBSON
Disadvantages: -

...a young Mel Gibson. Mad Max is pretty much a cultic type of movie. ... Read review

Advantages: Exciting and stylish
Disadvantages: Exploitative, I think

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 ... Read review