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Mad Max

1979

George Miller

Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Steve Bisley, Hugh Keays-Byrne ...

6.6

65,721

Action. Sci-Fi Max Rockatansky, an officer in the Main Force Patrol, an ultra-tough near future highway patrol, kills The Nightrider, an escaped cop killer, during a high-speed road chase. The Nightrider’s comrades, a motorcycle gang led by The Toecutter, go on a spree of violence in a small town in revenge. When Max’s partner Jim Goose stands up to them, he is burned alive inside a vehicle. The gang then come after Max..

	Author	Review
United States	Variety	"George Miller (...) shows he knows what cinema is all about."	POS
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"Simple, but effective (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The film's imagery is wild and its editing pace frenetic."	POS
United States	Tom Buckley The New York Times	"'Mad Max' is ugly and incoherent, and aimed, probably accurately, at the most uncritical of moviegoers."	NEG
United Kingdom	Derek Adams Time Out	"The tone sometimes wavers into self-parody, and there are occasional crude patches, but overall this edge-of-seat revenge movie marks the most exciting debut from an Australian director since Peter Weir."	POS
United Kingdom	Luke Buckmaster The Guardian	"Freed from the shackles of conventional action move storytelling (...) brings a weird kind of liberation"	POS

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