Oldies Review - Mad Max

Director: George Miller
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Adventure/ Science Fiction
Runtime: 93 minutes
Year: 1979
Starring: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Roger Ward, Lisa Aldenhoven, David Bracks, Bertrand Cadart, David Cameron, Robina Chaffey, Stephen Clark, Mathew Constantine, Jerry Day, Reg Evans.

Description: In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman (Mel Gibson) sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.

Review: The then unknown Mel Gibson plays Max, an agent of the special unit who, after a fallout, stops criminals and motorcycle gangs. In a spectacular opening scene, the cold-blooded Max mercilessly deals with the ruthless criminal Nightrider and that puts bad blood between im and the motorcycle gang led by the insane Toecutter. Toecutter and his followers seek revenge and soon they open the hunt for Max and his buddies.
When Max’ god friend Goose ends up in the hospital, Max realizes that the police unit is no longer in control and he decides to take a break to sort everything out. But when his wife and son are murdered by Toecutter and his gang, Max is determined to return to the unit and avenge his family. A sensational chase with a fatal outcome in the forbidden area is the result.
Director and screenwriter George Miller created a violent action film set in a post-apocalyptic landscape in Australia. The film contains hardly any dialogue, convincing acting and surprising plot twists, but the explicit images of the wasteland, the bizarre crimes of Toecutter’s gang and the excessive violence appeal to the imagination. And with only a runtime of 93 minutes, “Mad Max” is an great watch with not a dull moment in sight.

Rating: 3,5 / 5

Netflix Friday - Volume 2

Some Netflix film tips for the weekend! And there is something for everyone, since I picked a movie for all the different genres.

Action: John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is on the run after killing a member of the international assassins’ guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head, he is the target of hit men and women everywhere.

Drama: The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017)
Keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski (Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh), must save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion in WWII Poland.

Comedy: The Nice Guys (2016)
In 1970 Los Angeles, a mismatched pair of private eyes (Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling) investigate a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star.

Animation: Early Man (2018)
Set in the dawn of time, then prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, we meet Dug (Eddie Redmayne) and his sidekick Hognob, as they unite his tribe against a might enemy Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston) and his Bronze Age City to save their home.

Romance: Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
After a stint in a mental instituation, former teacher Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) moves back with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

Horror: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
The centuries old vampire Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker’s (Keanu Reeves) fiancée Mina Murray (Winona Ryder) and inflict havoc in the foreign land.

Science Fiction: Mad Max (1979)
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman (Mel Gibson) sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.

Crime: Sicario (2015)
An idealist FBI agent (Emily Blunt) is enlisted by a government task force to aid the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the US and Mexico

Thriller: A Cure for Wellness (2016)
An ambitious young executive (Dane DeHaan) is sent to retrieve his company’s CEO from an idyllic but mysterious ‘wellness center’ at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa’s treatments are not what they seem.

Documentary: Behind the Curve (2018)
Meet Flat Earthers, a small but rowing contingent of people who firmly believe in a conspiracy to suppress the truth that the Earth is flat.

Family: The Land Before Time (1988)
An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.