Mad Max (1979)

Fury Road was amazing so I wanted to see where it all started. It’s clearly a proto-version of Miller’s vision for a road apocalypse movie, but thankfully there are enough weirdnesses and idiosyncrasies to carry us through the more amateur moments. Mel Gibson does the charismatic sensitive psycho so well already it is no surprise that it ended up his ticket to global stardom in Lethal Weapon a few years later. ★★★☆☆