The Madness of Max 2015

     This film is about the making of one of the most influential movies of the past thirty years.  It features forty cast and crew interviews, hundreds of behind the scenes photographs plus unseen film footage of the shoot.  There is everything that you didn’t know about the behind the scenes story.

     The basis of the plot is following the adventures of Max Rockatansky.  He is a police officer in a future Australia and there is a societal collapse.   This is due to war and critical resource shortages.  A vicious biker gang kills Max’s wife and child.  This sets him on a path of revenge against the bikers.  I thought the names of some of the characters were very interesting.  Broken Victim, The Humungus, Gyro Captain, Jedediah the Pilot, Glory the Child, Bubba Zanetti, Johnny the Boy, The Feral Kid, Warrior Woman, Pappagallo, Pig Killer, Imperator Furiosa, Splendid Angharad, The Dag, Cheedo the Fragile for examples.  The only thing I didn’t like about this film is the obvious cuts during the interviews.  They are very fast but you can see them as an interruption.  3 ½* (I liked this movie)  

      

157 min, Doc directed and written by Gary McFeat and Tim Ridge with Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Bertrand Cadart, David Cameron, Howard Eynon, Nic Gazzana, Mel Gibson, John Hipwell, Paul Johnstone, Hugh Keays-Byrne, John Ley, Steve Millichamp, Geoff Parry, Joanne Samuel, Roger Ward.

Note:  Imdb 7.7 out of 10, Rotten Tomatoes 73% critic, Letterboxd average 3.5* out of 5*, Amazon 4.5* out of 5* with 22 reviews, Microsoft.com 4* out of 5* with 26 reviews.

Special Note:  The Mad Max franchise films are Mad Max 1979, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior 1981, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985 and Mad Max: Fury Road 2015.  Miller and McCarthy found during the writing process for Mad Max: Fury Road that they had enough story material for two additional scripts.  There is a possibility that Mad Max: Furiosa and Mad Max: the Wasteland could be future films.