Rate: 9.7 Mad Max Trilogy

Year: 1985

Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Action

Director: George Bush

Artists: Toecutter Artist, Joanne Samuel, Max, Jessie, Mel Gibson

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The Mad Max trilogy is pure adrenaline - a quality that was not lost when the franchise received an injection of American money for its third installment. The essential formula is straightforward, and involves a lot of fights and chases. The films' appeal is strictly visceral; one can pretty much shut down the higher functioning areas of the brain. Perhaps the most surprising thing about the Mad Max movies (I credit director George Miller for this) is that, despite a certain amount of repetitio ...