I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

(Flash Review)Simple plot. Mad Max, a former policeman turned enforcer for hire, helps civilians living in a fuel refinery protect their resources from road pirates. This felt about as empty as the first one. Lots of time goes by without much story progression and just a little character development. A couple car smash and people bashing scenes through the first 2 acts. The last act was the behemoth car and truck chase scene on the endless dessert road. That was pretty exciting but I still feel this film is overrated but at least the story was more substantial then the first one.

This film is highly regarded as one of the best films of the 80's, scoring a 98% fresh rating on rotten tomatoes, and personally I thought it was atrocious, now it's rare for me to turn a film off before the end credits, but this piece of garbage had it coming, there is no actual plot, the direction is shaky and unfocused, the acting is mostly laughable and really bad, with the exception of Mel Gibson, and it feels as if it were made by robots.Awful moments in the 43 minutes I had to endure include a scene where a woman is stripped of her clothing and brutally raped and killed for entertainment purposes, a braindead scene where a prisoner is shouting during the freak in charge's speech, which results in a nerdy looking guy punching that prisoner in the stomach, seconds later he rubs his head, saying "shhh it's alright", really? Is it trying to parody itself, because either way it's not funny, another sequence involves a boomerang killing what appeared to be a transvestite, the child who threw it was about 7 years old, moments later terrible acting ensues, and the scumbag in charge of the thugs, sporting a Jason Voorhees mask, says he will have his revenge, then they drive off, Gibson and the villagers make a plan to be rid of the thugs, and there's multiple action sequences. I refused to go further, because I was depressed at how god-awful this thing was, it's perhaps as awful as one of the worst films of the 80's, and that is Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, the third and most awful of this overrated, dreadful franchise.

There is more to the Mad Max Franchise than just car chases and cashes. It is a story of a man named Max, it is his story, glimpses into his life after a world collapse. This story takes place after his wife and child were brutally murdered (the original film), the times are rough and the people are growing more desperate mainly for fuel. Gangs are everywhere, the violence is increasing and Max and his dog are in the middle of all it all - surviving any way they can.If you think about all the gangs and violence going on in the world as it already is then imagine if the world economy collapsed or even any survivors after WW3 -- I think you see where I'm going with this - the Mad Max films are not all that far-fetched IF the world economy collapses or WW3 happens in the real world. People are already violent, gangs and the world is a mess as it is. I find this franchise plausible: a fight over fuel.9/10

Clearly this is one of the best movies ever made regardless of genre. I first watched this movie as a college student in the 80's. The filming and action sequences were so far ahead of its time. Watching tonight some 35 years later still sends tingles down my spine. This is the best of the Mad Max series by far.