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DVD ~ Mel Gibson
3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns
  • Directors: George Miller
  • Writers: George Miller, Byron Kennedy
  • Producers: Bill Miller, Byron Kennedy
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: MGM
  • DVD Release Date: 1 Jan 2002
  • Run Time: 93 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005R2IS
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 61,515 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The story of Mel Gibson's stately anti-hero begins in Mad Max, George Miller's low-budget debut, in which Max is a "Bronze" (cop) in an unspecified post-apocalyptic future with a buddy-partner and family. But, unlike most films set in the devastated future, Mad Max is notable because it is poised between our industrialised world and total regression to medieval conditions. The scale tips towards disintegration when the Glory Riders burn into town on their bikes like an overcharged cadre of Brando's Wild Ones. Representing the active chaos that will eventually overwhelm the dying vestiges of civil society they take everything dear to Max, who then has to exact due revenge. His flight into the same wilds that created the villains artfully sets up the morally ambiguous character of the subsequent films. --Alan E Rapp, Amazon.com

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, Mad Max On DVD With The Australian Sound Track..., 5 Dec 2001
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This review is from: Mad Max [1979] [DVD] (DVD)
What a joke that original US DVD release of Mad Max was, American english only and poor picture quality.
I've just recieved this recently released UK version and I'm very happy. You can select the original Australian sound track and the Picture and sound quality is very good ( I zoomed the picture 2x with my Toshiba DVD Player and the Picture Quality still stayed very good ). The Picture format on this DVD is Widescreen 2.35:1.
This UK release of Mad Max on DVD is worth buying...
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars One Of My Favorites, 16 April 2002
This review is from: Mad Max [1979] [DVD] (DVD)
I love this film, post apocolyptic(probably spelt wrong) movies is one of my favourite genres, and this fits the bill nicely. This movie shows a world where petrol is running out and society is breaking down. Bike gangs are running wild and the cops are powerless to stop them due to human rights laws whenever they do make an arrest.
I won`t reveal what happens but the ending is not full of amazing CGI graphics or vast amount of people but more centralised on characters.
I have to mention the music as well which makes the atmosphere so you really get caught up in the story, especially towards the end.
Just one dissapointment - there are no extras!!! Only reason for 4-stars, i do not consider different languages "extras" but essential for DVD`S. I usually don`t buy DVD`s without extras but my collection wouldent be complete without this film - a must buy.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Aussie Classic from the late 70s, 8 Mar 2007
By Je Hoare "Joseph1980" (Gravesend, Kent, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mad Max [1979] [DVD] (DVD)
Watching George Miller's directorial breakthrough again confirms one thing among many others: that this is a filmmaker with not only an excellent spatial sense but also a nice appreciation of landscapes.
This should have been as exciting a cinematic decut for the watching film world as Spielberg's or Tarantino's - whether they actually did herald Miller's arrival in the way he deserved I am too young to tell.
But what a great movie. A Fantastic marriage of cop flick and low-budget exploitationer, Miller's movie is to this genre (whatever the hell that is) what The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is to American horror.
Taking Einstein's assertion that World War IV would be fought with bows and arrows as his cue, Miller sets his movie in (we assume) a future Australia inhabited by gangs
of barbaric bikers who wage high-speed war on the country roads.
When one of their clan, the Knightrider, is killed in a high-speed prison break, his peers, led by the psychotic Toecutter, vow revenge on Max Kotanski, the one they hold responsible.
What sets Mad Max Apart from similar films is its many pleasing quirks: the bikers - like the even more primitive barbarians in part 2 - are a shrewd mix of pre-civilisation warrior and punkish, androgynous psycho.

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