Movie review: 'Mad Max: Fury Road' is your thrill-ride summer blockbuster - Tulsa World
Theaters : Cinemark Tulsa, Broken Arrow Warren Theatre, AMC Southroads 20, Starworld 20, Admiral Twin Drive-in, Cinemark Broken Arrow, Eton Square, Owasso, Sand Springs. Quality : 4 stars (on a scale of zero to four stars). Mel Gibson starred as "Max" in the first three films in this series written and directed by Australian filmmaker George Miller. "Mad Max" (1979) 3. 5 stars. Aussie native Gibson, at 23, was cool as the top cop who went "mad" when his wife and child are murdered by a gang. Miller's masterpiece found Max a lost man in a dystopic badlands of violence with roaming gangs and people who will do anything to obtain gasoline. This film formed the mythology of the character, and Max's cynicism added an odd humor to the action. "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" (1985) 2. 5 stars. The franchise goes Hollywood with broad humor, higher production values and Gibson going toe-to-toe with Tina Turner's queen-like leader of a desert town during a power struggle. Turner's "We Don't Need Another Hero" was a film-promotion hit, and Max was a hero to a tribe of lost children. Source: www.tulsaworld.com
