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
spend time with his wife
and son but lets his boss talk him into taking a peaceful vacation and
he starts to reconsider. Then his world is shattered as a gang led by
the evil Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne) murders his family in retaliation
for the death of one of its members. Dead inside, Max straps on his
helmet and climbs into a souped-up V8 racing machine to seek his bloody
revenge. Despite an obviously low budget and a plot reminiscent of many
spaghetti Westerns, Mad Max is tremendously exciting, thanks to some of
the most spectacular road stunts ever put on film.
Cinematographer David
Eggby and stunt coordinator Grant Page did some of their best work
under Miller's direction and crafted a gritty, gripping thrill ride
which spawned two sequels, numerous imitations, and made Mel Gibson an
international star. One sequence, in which a man is chained to a car and
must cut off a limb before the machine explodes is one of the most
tense scenes of the decade. The American version dubbed all the voices
-- including Gibson's -- in a particularly cartoonish manner. Trivia
buffs should note that Max's car is a 1973 Ford Falcon GT Coupe with a
300 bhp 351C V8 engine, customized with the front end of a Ford Fairmont
and other modifications. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi (http://www.rottentomatoes.com)
R,
1 hr. 33 min.
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Science Fiction & Fantasy,
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