I’ve seen this before. A long, long time ago. But I was somewhat confused while watching it again.
First of all, large amounts of the film are pretty irrelevant to the story. There’s an awful lot of setting the scene, but the majority of the main action happens in the last 20 minutes. In fact, the first half of the film isn’t really even about Max himself anyway – it’s all about Goose, Max’s partner.
And there’s lots I don’t understand. Why are there so many broken old cars? Why is the police force now just a few guys in leather who take down people on the roads? What happened to all the people? Why, when they appear to have the whole of Australia to play in, do the police (or rather, “MFP”) keep bumping into the same biker gang? What exactly is wrong with Toecutter, which makes him and his gang decide to torture and kill random passersby for no reason?
So it didn’t make a lot of sense, had a stuttery story, and Mel Gibson only spoke around 20 words in the entire film (and most of them were in some soppy soliloquy which didn’t go anywhere). But I like “stories of a dystopian future”, so it scores a bit higher for that. And the scene where Johnny the Boy gets his come-uppance.
Verdict: 2/5
