This is brutal, exciting stuff, all the more impressive for its budget constraints.
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05/06/08
Mad Max (1979)
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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... [More]
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Tim Burns, Steve Bisley
Director: George Miller
Reviews for Mad Max
Top CriticSimple, but effective.
05/30/07
Top CriticThe 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 CriticNo review available.
11/14/07
Classic cult fun made famous by director Miller and then new star Gibson.
08/03/07
The stunt work is spectacular.
07/04/07
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 CriticStunts 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 CriticSome of the most determinedly formalist filmmaking this side of Michael Snow.
05/30/07
This was a great movie!
08/04/06
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
No review available.
07/25/05
No review available.
07/14/05
No review available.
01/05/05
Cult low-budgeter that benefits from Miller's direction and Gibson's then lack of self-importance.
07/19/04
No review available.
07/01/04
No review available.
02/04/04
No review available.
11/07/03
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