Review of Mad Max (1979) by Tomas T — 09 Dec 2012
With the Mad Max trilogy, Australian director George Miller envisioned a bleak and downright crazy post apocalyptic world which would end up influencing modern day popular culture in various shapes and forms.
In the first Mad Max film, Miller introduces his visions of post apocalyptic world where a dystopic society is being terrorized by roaming motor gangs and lawlessness runs rampant. In this depressing future, there is no room for heroes or hope, just people trying to survive the punishingly hard reality and the craziness of almost total breakdown of society. This offers a perfect setting for a straightforward vengeance film where the films anti-hero, police officer Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson), sets out to revenge his murdered partner and family.
The first Mad Max film felt somewhat incoherent and I was bit disappointed by the fact that it offers little to no explanation on how the world apocalypse came to be. Despite these shortcomings and the fact that the film is bit on the campy side and made with low budget, the first Mad Max does offer one of the best movie fictionalizations of the utter chaos that would surely follow an apocalyptic event.
This review of Mad Max (1979) was written by Tomas T on 09 Dec 2012.
Mad Max has generally received positive reviews.
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