Mad Max (1980)

Overrated

Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

I hadn't seen the first Mad Max movies. So i started to watch them. And my thoughts on The first one are good. It isn't anything really special, but what i like is that with a really small budget they did some cool action scenes. The first half of the movie is pretty average and boring for me. But the second half is much better. The Acting goes from bad to good. Nothing too special but still pretty good. The stunts are really good and i really liked what they pulled off. For conclusion, i liked it but it wasn't anything new for me.(Also it's my first review and i'm sorry if there's any grammatical errors)

Mad Max is quite easily the most famous Australian franchise that ever was. It's seen iterations in not only sequels to this classic movie, but also comic books and video games. And it all started with George Miller's groundbreaking 1979-dystopian-innovation of a film: starring then newcomer, Mel Gibson. The film is HIGH-OCTANE stuff, fast and furious (WELL before Vin Diesel's franchise; pun intended) and mean in a very very memorable way. Bikies, fast cars, revenge, and Madness supreme! Mad Max is a bit of an upsetting film, but this film broke new ground at the time. Its brutality in theme and content was unsurpassed at the time it came out, so much so that it was initially banned in countries New Zealand and Sweden. Of course it would come out later in those places but this censorship proves how much of an impact and shock Mad Max left in its wake. And let me tell you; this film is cinema history. Without this we wouldn't have things like post-apocalyptic fiction in games, comics or t.v. even.If you haven't seen the movie, give it a watch and continue the Mad Max series if you so desire.

One of the main reasons people seem to like this film is because they come in and expect The Road Warrior, despite this being Maxs origin story.The film was made on a low budget of somewhere around $300,000 and in a lot of places you can't tell.I watched this film after seeing the trailers for Mad Max: Fury Road and wanted to see where the craze started, and as I mentioned above people tend to hate it because it's not the sequels.George Miller makes his directorial Debut along with his good friend Byron Kennedy who produced the film, in his acting Debut Mel Gibson steps into a Black Leather outfit and gets behind the wheel of possibly the nicest car to ever grace Cinema a 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT affectionately Dubbed "The last of the V8 Interceptors", although in this film the Car is intact and isn't roughed up as the later films.The cast deliver a great performance, and I would be genuinely scared if a man Like the Toe-cutter Appeared as I would be scared he'd pounce on me at any moment.* Spoilers *a lot of people say the story makes no sense, it starts out with Max having a sense of justice and taking down a criminal, obviously the criminals gang don't like this and after one of their members is arrested and subsequently released, they critically wound the man who arrested him driving Max to question himself, and by doing so they instead of taking their revenge out directly on the man who killed the criminal from the opening, they go for a more physic- logical approach and Critically wound his Wife and killing his child, before he gains revenge himself on the gang, by hunting them down and running them off the road before hand cuffing the last member who'd wounded his friend, by the ankle to a truck which is going to explode, and leave him with one of two things to cut through, Handcuffs or his ankle before driving off leaving his sanity behind.two things make the action great in this movie, 1.George Miller and Byron Kennedy weren't working for a studio and so they had full control over the film they wanted to make, minus budget of course 2. Miller had worked in a hospital getting the funding for the film and had scene many Car crash victims allowing him to see what he could put into his masterpiece.I Rate this movie 10/10 and would highly recommend watching this movie and for those who do i suggest you don't go in expecting the Road Warrior.

It is easy to forget, not that long ago Gibson was one of the kings of Hollywood.  He was so loved that even if he made a poor movie, his hoards of fans always came out in force, and it wouldn't flop. Then came the meltdowns. His fans and seemingly most of his friends deserted him (a few publicly said positive things about him) Hollywood blackballed him, and his career was seemingly over as many casual movie fans can't look at the man anymore without seeing a totally vile, despicable human being. Yet somehow, he could be looking an Oscar nomination for best director soon. So I thought I would look back at Mel Gibson's roller-coaster career. Starting with Mad Max Plot In A Paragraph: As society crumbles around him, a vengeful police officer (Gibson) attempts to stop a vicious motorcycle gang.I outright do not like this movie, I love the final scene, and the preceding 20 minutes are OK, but getting there is not worth the effort. Watching this now, I never would have believed Gibson would grow old in the business.