Product: Mad Max (1979)
Rating: 3.0
Watch "The Road Warrior" first!
This film is the prequel to the amazingly good "The Road Warrior". I've read that "Mad Max" has the highest return on investment of any film ever made ($100K to make, $100M in revenue generated); however, upon watching this movie, you will immediately be struck by its very low budget look and feel. If you've already watched "The Road Warrior", you may want to watch this one to see where RW has its roots, but you really need to watch RW first. Leonard Maltin (in his RW review) states that Mad Max is at least as good as RW; he is crazy. MM is a great movie for having been made for $100K, but RW is a GREAT MOVIE, period. One more thing, this film is dubbed with American voices because someone, in their infinite wisdom, thought Americans wouldn't be able to understand Australian accents. This was a big mistake, as the American voice actors invariably overacted in their dubbing.