Mad Max (1979)
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Reviews Counted: 37 Fresh: 35 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.6/10
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]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Tim Burns, Steve Bisley
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This is brutal, exciting stuff, all the more impressive for its budget constraints.
05/06/08 05:08 PM
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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
Top Critic 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.
05/30/07 08:35 PM
Top Critic Australia exported this creative, original, exciting, low-budget genre landmark which gave the young Mel Gibson his first starring role.
05/30/07 08:34 PM
Top Critic 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.
05/30/07 08:32 PM
Top Critic Some of the most determinedly formalist filmmaking this side of Michael Snow.
05/30/07 08:31 PM
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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.
06/24/06 03:32 AM
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.
05/26/06 03:16 AM
Cult low-budgeter that benefits from Miller's direction and Gibson's then lack of self-importance.
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