This is brutal, exciting stuff, all the more impressive for its budget constraints.
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05/06/08
Mad Max (1979)
95 %
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Reviews Counted: 37
Fresh: 35
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Consensus: 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.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
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.... [More]
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Tim Burns, Steve Bisley
Director: George Miller
Reviews for Mad Max
Top Critic
Top Critic 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
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
Australia exported this creative, original, exciting, low-budget genre landmark which gave the young Mel Gibson his first starring role.
05/30/07
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
Top Critic Some of the most determinedly formalist filmmaking this side of Michael Snow.
05/30/07
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
Cult low-budgeter that benefits from Miller's direction and Gibson's then lack of self-importance.
07/19/04
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