Product: Mad Max (1979)
Rating: 4.0
What do I...
...have to say that's so different? Well, this film isn't the post-apocalyptic one that I was led to believe it is. Unless society is expected to have TV after a nuclear war, the second and third ones are the post-nuke war installments. This film has a great start, lonnng middle, and a great end. The action portions of the film are the beginning and the end, while the portions in the middle are more like melodrama. Big exception is that some "Action" scenes are more like "Horror" scenes, especially the two kids being assaulted in their fire-paint car. The film does have a low-budget feel, with some film cuts being repeated. The dubbing doesn't help, though I thought I heard some Australian in the first chase scene [the crazy dude's chick riding in the passenger seat] and in the TV anchorman. Some of the music also seems over the top, too. For all its faults, it succeeds as a whole, and worth watching if you like action films.