With the fifth instalment in the franchise hitting screens this week, we took a look at how The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald reviewed the first, now iconic, film.
reviewed the film that has become one of the most successful Australian movies ever made and spawned a five-decade-spanning franchise. The latest instalment,George Miller’s dystopian action film exploded into cinemas in Australia in April 1979 and went on to become the most profitable film in the world for two decades starred a rookie actor who was just one week out of NIDA, 21-year-old Mel Gibson.
“If the film has any message,” she wrote, “it is the relativity of beastliness, and in this lies the Australian character of the film.” is saturated by director George Miller with a surreal quality. It has a bizarre, striking visual style that combines the Hell’s Angels elements of. But the points Miller and writer James McCausland might have been making about the rituals and rites of their caricatured heavies and bikies and droogs look like they have been lost along the highway.
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