it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Mad Max3 And A Half Out Of 5Mad Max is a sci-fi thriller about an inadequately working officer who is a worried vulnerable family man that is on the verge of going rogue due to its surrounding that literally defines dog-eat-dog world. The effort and hard work that went on creating the future world pays off and the primary reason to that would be its accuracy and lunacy towards the resemblance with practicality which is not created to please the viewers but stand on its definite ideology. It is rich on technical aspects like choreography of all the chase sequences, background score, sound effects, art design and editing. The script is unpredictable, thought-provoking and goose-fleshing filled with nail-biting action sequences and three dimensional characters that are perfectly cooked and served to the audience. The screenplay by James McCausland and George Miller (the director) keeps the audience engaged with unexpected twists and turns and mind-shattering visuals where Miller's brilliant execution not only supports but celebrates it into a whole new level. The performance is decently handled by Mel Gibson although it could have been a lot better. Mad Max is sanely ingenious and bolder as much as glorifying and adventurous the journey is, for this is a long drive that every moviegoer has been waiting for buckling its seat.

Mad Max, is really a gearhead movie: sweet cars, sweet bikes, lots of chases. It was made on a small budget and surely shows it. I go back and forth with this one. I love it, then it's only ok, then I love it. This time it landed on the above average side of things mostly because I was using my critical, rating eye instead of just sitting back and enjoying the experience.

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.