Mad Max (1980)

Very disappointing...

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I hadn't seen the first Mad Max movies. So i started to watch them. And my thoughts on The first one are good. It isn't anything really special, but what i like is that with a really small budget they did some cool action scenes. The first half of the movie is pretty average and boring for me. But the second half is much better. The Acting goes from bad to good. Nothing too special but still pretty good. The stunts are really good and i really liked what they pulled off. For conclusion, i liked it but it wasn't anything new for me.(Also it's my first review and i'm sorry if there's any grammatical errors)

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.

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.

Set in the not-so-distant future of Australia and its vast expanses of open spaces, a gay biker gang claims the road as their own by terrorizing the towns and citizens found there. The MFP (police) pursue them in vain until the Interceptor (driven by Mel Gibson, in the title role) can track them down; the result is usually a spectacularly fatal crash. Produced by Bill Miller and Byron Kennedy on a shoestring budget, this cult classic – directed by Miller's brother George, who wrote the story with Kennedy, and the screenplay adaptation with James McCausland – it made Gibson a star.The story begins when the gang's leader – the Nightrider, played by Vince Gil – escapes with one of the MFP's vehicles. The ensuing chase creates havoc and violent collisions which foreshadow what's yet to come. But once Max joins the proceedings, the Nightrider knows he's doomed because he realizes that his interceptor is just as crazy as he. Afterwards, Max's boss Fifi (Roger Ward) convinces his superiors that they need to retain their young officer, and the last of the V8 Interceptors (a souped-up car that runs on Nitro) is assembled to entice and keep him from resigning. Later, after Max's best friend, motorcycle cop Jim Goose (Steve Bisley) is killed, Fifi gives his sullen young officer some time off with a speech, saying: "They say people don't believe in heroes anymore. Well damn them! You and me, Max, we're gonna give them back their heroes!"But Max, his seemingly always pantless wife Jessie (Joanne Samuel) and their child can't seem to escape the gang, bent on revenge after a mishap that causes one of their members to lose his hand. The Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne), now the gang's leader, and his annoying lover Johnny Boy (Tim Burns), happen upon the vacationing young family and tragedy befalls them. Of course, now it's Max's turn for revenge. He'd wanted to get out for fear that he'd become just as bad as them – "I'm scared, Fif. It's that rat circus out there; I'm beginning to enjoy it. Look, any longer out on that road and I'm one of them, a terminal psychotic, except that I've got this bronze badge that says that I'm one of the good guys" – but now it's too late. One by one, he picks off the bikers who, though they draw blood, haven't got a chance. In the final scene, Max earns the adjective that precedes his name in the film's title.