Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 2
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.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1
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.
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This stunning, post-apocalyptic action thriller from director George Miller stars Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky, a policeman in the near future who is tired of his job. Since the apocalypse, the lengthy, desolate stretches of highway in the Australian outback have become bloodstained battlegrounds. Max has seen too many innocents and fellow officers murdered by the bomb's savage offspring, bestial marauding bikers for whom killing, rape, and looting is a way of life. He just wants to retire and
R, 1 hr. 33 min.
Apr 12, 1979 Wide
Nov 19, 1997
American International Picture
All Critics (39) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (2) | DVD (36)
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.
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.
Top CriticSome of the most determinedly formalist filmmaking this side of Michael Snow.
Mad Max is ugly and incoherent, and aimed, probably accurately, at the most uncritical of moviegoers.
More jangly, visceral energy and encompass more creative innovations than something made with today's computer technology and bottomless resources.
Perhaps a bit clumsy in the lumbering middle act, but Mad Max delivers the goods when it comes to pulse-pounding car chases and stunts.
Despite its budget and other shortcomings, Mad Max is still worth watching and worth adding to the post-apocalyptic section of your home video collection.
Mad Max's arrival on Blu-ray carries the reminder that, above all else, the film is a low-budget action spectacle that should inspire amateur filmmakers to take genuine risks.
Like all of the best exploitation films, it transcends its limitations while simultaneously embracing them.
The greatest example of Ozploitation movies, George Miller's 1979 "Mad Max" is a pure cinematic anomaly.
This is brutal, exciting stuff, all the more impressive for its budget constraints.
Classic cult fun made famous by director Miller and then new star Gibson.
The stunt work is spectacular.
Simple, but effective.
Australia exported this creative, original, exciting, low-budget genre landmark which gave the young Mel Gibson his first starring role.
This was a great movie!
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.
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.
I finally saw this cult classic. It was cool. Mel was such a babe, even with that bowl cut. But this movie had a lot of leather and sh*t hair. And for a movie called Mad Max, I don't think it should have taken an hour and 13 minutes for Max to get mad.
May 13, 2011Super Reviewer
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