MAD MAX REVISITED

From 1979, the original Mad Max movie starring Mel Gibson and directed by George Miller is a helterskelter whirl wind of futuristic mayhem that deserves to be re watched. Shot out in the Australian outback on a small budget, this is the movie that catapulted them both to international stardom and spawned a franchise that has become part of cinematic and cultural history.

Taking place in a dystopian Australia in the near future, Mad Max tells the story of a highway patrolman cruising the squalid back roads that have become the breeding ground of criminals foraging for gasoline and scraps. When his wife and child meet a grisly end at the hands of a motorcycle gang, Max sets out across the barren wastelands in search of revenge.

The rawness and the insane driving, stunts and vengeance fueled heat in this movie, bubbles with a tension that drives us towards a violent climax. In many ways its the best of the franchise, gritty, dirty, pyschotic and rolling towards a thunderous nuclear explosion like the out of control vehicle that Max drives.

The element of humanity in the movie which moves towards the disintegration of Max's sanity is a perfect companion to the apocalyptic lunacy of the landscape the story takes place within, the destruction of his own humanity releasing the true spirit of inner holocaust. Its a gradual transformation, his thirst for vengeance acting as a mirror to the lunatic opening of the film itself.

Here it is on IMDB
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079501/