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Hugh Keays-Byrne, Joanne Samuel, Mel Gibson, Roger Ward, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns
In a dystopic future Australia, a vicious biker gang murder a cop's family and make his fight with them personal.
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This hardly feels like it's set in the future; it just has a lot of scenes of highway skirmishes in Australia. It's curious to see how this started a trilogy of Mad Max movies.
Ozploitation! A great film that would have actually been spoilt with a bigger budget in my opinion!
Although Mad Max is often called a post-apocalyptic movie, it really isn't. It is more precisely a dystopian vision of the future, where civil society is under siege by increasing crime and disorder. The vision of future in Mad Max is in many ways similar to that presented in A...( read more)
A milestone of australian filmmaking and also Mel Gibson's rise to stardom.
Apocalyptic spaghetti western with roaring engines instead of horses, and the classic typology of colourful characters, a deadly battle in no man's land between borderline demented villains and a reluctan...( read more)
one of the first proper post-apocalyptic science fiction films of this type... and a fantastic one!
great ending. a fantastic film, even on such a low budget.
Mel Gibson was so hot running down the street.......no shoes, and no shirts.....Mel can still get service.......LOL
Weird flick. Can't say I really got into it. Maybe I have to see it again. But it's just...I dunno. Doesn't do it for me. Too hokey.
