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Mad Max

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Mad Max (1979)

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Reviews Counted: 37 Fresh: 35  Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.6/10
 
Consensus: Bringing a violent, post-apocalyptic world to visceral life. Staging the improbable car stunts and crashes to perfection, director George Miller succeeds completely in bringing the violent, post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max to visceral life. more
 
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Synopsis:
Futuristic tale set in Australia, which has become a wasteland where vicious, fast-driving criminals cause death, destruction, and mayhem on the highways. The police do their best to maintain control, but their attempts prove futile. As a result, one cop named Max quits his job and goes on a... [More]
Futuristic tale set in Australia, which has become a wasteland where vicious, fast-driving criminals cause death, destruction, and mayhem on the highways. The police do their best to maintain control, but their attempts prove futile. As a result, one cop named Max quits his job and goes on a vacation with his family. However they are terrorized by a gang of malicious speed-demons, who kill Max' wife and baby. Angry, Max rejoins the force, revs up his motorcycle -- and seeks bloody revenge against the fiends who murdered his family. [Less]

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Tim Burns, Steve Bisley

Director: George Miller
Producer: Bill Miller
Composer: Brian May
Screenwriter: George Miller

DVD Info

Release:

Dec 4, 2007

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Mono - English Dubbed
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English/Australian
  • Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentaries
  • Documentaries - 1. "Mel Gibson: The Birth of a Star"
  • 2. "MAD MAX: The Film Phenomenon"
  • Trailers

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Stills/Photos
  • ]

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This is brutal, exciting stuff, all the more impressive for its budget constraints.

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05/06/08 05:08 PM
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11/14/07 09:01 AM
Cole Smithey
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Classic cult fun made famous by director Miller and then new star Gibson.

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08/03/07 11:43 AM
Steve Crum
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The stunt work is spectacular.

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07/04/07 09:10 PM
Dennis Schwartz
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Simple, but effective.

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05/30/07 08:37 PM
Empire Magazine
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Overnight, Mad Max went from being a U.S. cult hero to a mainstream figure, and Mel Gibson's place in the firmament was secured.

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05/30/07 08:35 PM
James Berardinelli
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Australia exported this creative, original, exciting, low-budget genre landmark which gave the young Mel Gibson his first starring role.

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05/30/07 08:34 PM
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Stunts themselves would be nothing without a filmmaker behind the camera and George Miller, a doctor and film buff making his first feature, shows he knows what cinema is all about.

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05/30/07 08:32 PM
Variety
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Some of the most determinedly formalist filmmaking this side of Michael Snow.

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05/30/07 08:31 PM
Dave Kehr
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This was a great movie!

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08/04/06 03:16 AM
JoBlo
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The tone sometimes wavers into self-parody, and there are occasional crude patches, but overall this edge-of-seat revenge movie marks the most exciting debut from an Australian director since Peter Weir.

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06/24/06 03:32 AM
Derek Adams
Time Out
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Though director George Miller took the post-apocalyptic tough guy Max a lot farther in the sequel The Road Warrior, Mad Max still packs in Miller's particular brand of black-comedy thrills.

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05/26/06 03:16 AM
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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07/25/05 06:49 PM
Jules Brenner
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07/14/05 11:54 PM
Emanuel Levy
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Encompasses the essence of the sexy revenge flick.

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07/08/05 01:12 AM
Gregory Weinkauf
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01/05/05 05:30 PM
Jay Antani
Los Angeles Alternative
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Cult low-budgeter that benefits from Miller's direction and Gibson's then lack of self-importance.

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07/19/04 05:52 PM
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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07/01/04 10:30 AM
Randy Shulman
Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)
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02/04/04 10:41 AM
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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11/07/03 01:51 PM
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