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Is Max Mad? Well just a bit!!

Advantages: A classic movie on DVD
Disadvantages: Violence may offend some

Review of Mad Max. DVD format. The DVD A one disc edition, this was the first in the Mad Max trilogy. ASIN B00005MHN8 , Region 2, runtime 88 minutes, released on DVD June 2006 by Warner Home Video. Classification 18, genre Sci-fi/Action. The DVD is not bursting with special features merely the following:- Interactive Menus Scene Access Languages in Dolby Digital 1.0 : English, French, Italian Bonus Audio : Original Australian Theatrical Audio ...
...the cinema screens in 1979, Mad Max has stood the test of time. The film was as mentioned earlier in the review, the first in the three Mad Max films and Max Kotanski is the archetypal anti-hero. The plot of this, the first Mad Max movie is fast moving and well paced. The acting is to be fair a little wooden in places, yet the actual action scenes are very graphic and well thought out. The plot builds tension as the story unfolds and has you fearing ...

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Review of Mad Max (DVD)

Max is more than mad.. he's insane

Advantages: great action packed entertainment
Disadvantages: none

...This second movie in the Mad Max saga opens with a briefing of the first movie, so in essence you do not have to have seen the first film to understand this one… but I do recommend watching the first as it is a great movie with some fantastic action and thrills. Anyway… The Character Max Rockatansky has already made Mel Gibson a bit of a household name due to the very first Mad Max saga in 1979 becoming a bit of a cult movie from the moment it ...
...as good as the first Mad Max but it comes very close and is just as action packed and entertaining. The all round acting leaves no complaints as everyone plays their parts brilliantly, especially Kjell Nilsson as the weird Lord Humungous and not forgetting Emil Minty as the dog like feral kid who grunts his way through the movie… and watch out for this kids rather bizarre tricks he does with his boomerang. If you like the Mad Max saga then get ...

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Review of Mad Max 2 - The Road Warrior (DVD)

Mad Max verses Tina Turner...

Advantages: More great futuristic action from Mr Gibson
Disadvantages: slightly mad in parts

...This third instalment in the Mad Max sagas was released in the summer of 1985...and continues to follow the hellish life of ex-police officer Max Rockatansky. ** BRIEF PLOT ** Max Rockatansky, (played by Mel Gibson) was once an Australian police officer until he sought revenge for the death of his wife and children… now, a washed out loner, he simply wonders the desert trying to survive in the hell which is Earth… Max is ambushed, losing everything ...
...action packed movie from the Mad Max sequels… It is set in the same scenario as the first movie, survival of mankind in a desert after a nuclear strike… making earth into what can only be described as Hell… Gibson, already made his name from Mad Max, is again brilliant, although his speaking parts are more or less non existence, his acting skills really are showing the world what this man is capable of in the movie circles. And what can we say ...

blissman70 04.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Mad Max 3 - Beyond Thunderdome (DVD)

Two man enter, one man leave.

Advantages: The complete trilogy in one box
Disadvantages: Limited on extras

Mad Max is the story of Police Officer Max (Mel Gibson) and his turbulent look into the future. The first of the three films is set close to the present day where society is collapsing and gangs rule the roads. The only people willing to stand up to them are the few Policemen that try to keep order. However one gang seeks revenge for the death of one of their own, and Max is the target of this violent vengeance. When max loses the closest people ...
...not. However when I watched Mad Max I found a film that not only pleased me with its action and adventure but also scared me in a sense that this type of future could actually happen. I find it hard to find any other post apocalypse story that compares with this, and although the third film was given a bigger budget and suffered for it don't let it take away any of the goodness that the whole trilogy gives you. I thoroughly recommend this to any ...

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Review of Mad Max Trilogy (Box Set) (DVD)

You Look Like a Radioactive Tampon

Advantages: Great Direction and Acting
Disadvantages: Too Slow for some

Moon reminds me a lot of those big weighty Sci-fi films of the seventies where it was all about atmosphere, storyline and your imagination rather than riotous special effects and wise cracking aliens. This film is utterly beguiling, its tense but strangely relaxing, all of these is down to two men, the director Duncan Jones and the star Sam Rockwell. This is Jones' first feature film and its an incredibly impressive debut, he eschewed using his father ...
...it is a really fantastic film which is a credit to him. Starring Sam Rockwell as Sam, the only worker on an automated lunar mining complex. He has been working on his own for nearly three years and nearing the end of his term in space he feels lonely, isolated and confused....as anyone would, I imagine. With only a droid, Gerty (Voiced by Kevin Spacey) for company, Sam is alone and starts to feel a world apart from Earth, he feels he is alone but ...

paulie1975 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Moon (DVD)