My Review of The Original Mad Max

My Review of the Original Mad Max

Before The Fast and The Furious, Speed Racer, and all of today's hybrid human/cgi rendered cars and blue screen chase sequences, there were movies with real stuntmen and real gas guzzlers from Detroit that made a lot of noise. Of these films, Australian director George Miller's 1979 dystopian film Mad Max--and its follow-up, The Road Warrior--exemplifies the extinct breed of animal known as muscle cars, or, in this instance, Australian muscle!

In a nutshell, Mad Max is about a good cop named Max Rockatanski (Played by Mel Gibson) who gives in to the dark side after a ruthless motorcycle gang led by the Toe-cutter ambushes and tortures his best friend, the "Goose." The real star of this film, though, are not the many muscle cars used in this film: Max's yellow Interceptor squad car; the Kawasaki motorcycles; or The Mad Max revenge car, the Pursuit Special at the end of the film. No, the most important star of this film is the driver's seat perspective of the road itself.

Can't say enough about this film which was Director George Miller's 1st film, putting him up with the likes of Scorsese's 1973 film Mean Streets, and Christopher Nolan's 1998 film Following as among the best debut films ever. Like James Cameron's 1984 film The Terminator, Mad Max's sequel is as good if not better than the original. If you haven't seen this film in a while, you should see it on blu ray. It's like seeing it for the first time.