Mad Max (1979)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1979
	Director: George Miller
	Actors: Mel Gibson, Steve Bisley, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne
	Country: AUS
	Genre: Action, Adventure
	Conditions of visioning: 23.05.2015, DVD, Original Australian with English subtitles
Synopsis: In a near future world, the cops do their best to lay down the law and the outlaw gangs try their hardest to defy the system. Max Rockatansky (Gibson) husband, father and cop turns judge, juror and executioner after his best friend Goose (Bisley), wife Jesse (Samuel) and baby are killed by a motorider gang led by Toecutter (Keays-Byrne).
Review: To get prepared for Mad Mad Fury road, I wanted to watch the History of Mad Max and therefore came back to 1979 and the spectacular cheap budget movie. This movie created for me an archetype of the action movie. The modern lonesome cowboy on the road to protect his people and for revenge in a post-apocalyptical world.  The deaths of Goose and Jesse really lack of credibility. But the roughness of Max turned mad is like the recent (for that time) Dirty Harry with Clint Eastwood. As later for Mad Max, Dirty Harry had already several sequels.  The image is quite bad such as the acting a bit like in the relatively modern Boy Golden. But the bad guy is well embodied by Keays-Byrne. This makes the movie much better. And for that time in Australia, the quality might be acceptable.  One thing is unclear to me. Mad Max is supposed to be in a world close to collapse. But this seems to be quite daily life.
Rating: 4 /10