Well....the first Mad Max film. Watching this film nowadays is still a delight and it remains as entertaining and violent as when it did when it was released in 1979. I wasn't born when it first came out, and like many others, I only became aware of it after seeing the sequel, The Road Warrior. When I was little, I was forbidden to rent this movie from the video store, as my parents told me it was much too violent and would give me nightmares. Its silly now of course, but at the time, you could see this was a pretty violent film. The plot is simple. In future Australia, a small group of leather-clad police officers are the only law standing after Earth's downfall. They appear to be somewhat competent and on top of things until they make enemies with a violent biker gang led by the frightening psychotic Toecutter. Max is one of these police ifficers, and when Toecutter and his gang kill his best friend, wife, and child, Max sets out in his souped up V8 Interceptor to give the bikers a taste of their own medicine. The original Mad Max is a very simple and cheap film and is WAY different than its three sequels. This movie is almost very similar to other revenge films of the 70's, such as Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave. In fact, the biker villains in this film are very much like the villains in Last House on the Left in their psychotic mannerisms and Toecutter reminds me awfully of Krug Stillo. Also, the villains in both movies have the tables turned on them in the name of revenge. Thus, the bad guys in this film are somewhat more realistic than the villains in the sequels.As mentioned, the film is cheap but that is also what gives it its charm. You could definitely see that Mel Gibson was going to go on to become a star. This is still my favorite Mad Max movie and i always love watching it at leadt five times a year. 10/10

This movie has triggered the same thoughts and feelings on me as Highlander and I have to say exactly the same in this review as in the Highlander review. Seen by two things First, I understand why this movie has become a cult here are some ideas and longings that you've never seen before, at least not in this form and certainly not in a low budget movie. You can not see George Miller having the money nor the opportunity to build all that luster, but my goodness he did everything he could and luckily he can do a lot. Secondly, I do not think I ever saw a movie made from two different films welded together and actually works. I mean, it's a post apocalyptic film about police and street gangs but the last half hour is a Revenge movie that also has other music and was filmed differently and yet, all together, it's better to have a jigsaw puzzler and give it an interesting overall picture. I can now say hard what I like better, I like revenge movies, I also love movies with gangs, police and so on but both works are not really gooood here but the stunts are. I know that one of the films is the other filmmaker well apart from the scene at the end that was copied in Saw I could not see anything special out there.

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.

Over the course of this week, I have decided to watch all 3 of the original "Mad Max" movies, since I recently saw "Fury Road" and absolutely loved it. This is a trilogy of films that I have been meaning to finally watch for years now-and at last I can finally view these classics!This is the film that got the whole trilogy started, showcasing the doomed post apocalyptic Australian world and Mel Gibson's classic protagonist. It starts off as a charming, entertaining, but somewhat by the numbers action thriller, but eventually slides into some much darker territory once it morphs into a revenge flick. It's a great movie, despite being full of flaws. Some of the film's flaws work to its advantage, because they make the low budget feel of the movie even more charming, sort of like in the original "Evil Dead" movie, but other flaws are pretty annoying. A lot of the soundtrack is repetitive to a sometimes annoying degree, and the film is slightly slow and plot less (I'm all for plot less cinema, but it does not work in this movie) at times.This is definitely no "Fury Road" and, based on what I've heard, probably no "Road Warrior" either, but it's still worth checking out as it is a genuinely fun, classic action movie.