Mad Max (1979)

Action | 88 minutes

3,20 1.743 votes

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Genre: Action / Adventure

Duration: 88 minuten

Country: Australia

Stars: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel and Hugh Keays-Byrne

Releasedate: 12 April 1979

Mad Max plot

"The maximum force of the future."

In an anarchic, futuristic society, gangs of motorcyclists and car drivers sow terror among the population. Max is part of a police unit tasked with stopping these gangs. When Max realizes the consequences for him and his family, he decides to stop this perilous work. But it turns out not to be so easy to escape his old life.

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Shadowed

10410 messages
6236 votes

26 October 2018 at 17:03

Angry Max.

I've seen every installment in the series now, but haven't reviewed the first one yet. So with this one, I'm going to do that for a while. I remember the movie quite well for a production that was made a while back.

Gibson fits his role well, he just kind of has that look. It also doesn't lack charm at all. The rest was often a bit exaggerated, I really didn't like the fuss about the Night Rider at all, but the film sometimes knows how to choose its elements well.

The revenge that the film revolves around would have liked twice as long, and therefore feels a bit rushed. The rest of the movie was ok, the chases of the gang are portrayed ok. Reasonable action/thriller that falls short on some elements.

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Sergio Leone

4303 messages
2988 votes

20 April 2020 at 16:12

Bad.

Very dated, this classic. Mad Max looks very amateurish to me 40 years later, in acting, in sound effects, etc

A very young Mel Gibson is nothing to write home about, but so are his castmates. The so-called 'post-apocalyptic' world - or at least the world of a society in decline - remains rather vague to me, since everything still looks pretty much the same. The setting is little more than some Mongolians driving on an empty highway.

Not my thing.

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