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This 25 and a half minute retrospective of "Mad Max" can be found on Side B of MGM's Special Edition of the aforementioned movie. It features interviews with historians, film critics, some of the behind the camera crew. What none of the actors??? Heaven forbid the makers of this documentary go the extra mile and try to get at least one or two of the actors (I know Gibson would have been stretching feasibly, but how bout ANY of the other actors??). To add insult to injury this is FAR from informative. Even the common person is likely to know everything in here. A waste of disc space, this one sucked, A classic movie DESERVES MUCH better.

My Grade: F

Mad Max: The Film Phenomenon (2002)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Decent making of featurette features interviews with David Eggy, Kirk Honeycutt, Andrew Johnston, Peter Barton and David Stratton among others. At 25-minutes we learn about the production history of MAD MAX and how it ended up becoming a hit all over the globe. Eggy was the cinematography on the shoot and shares his secrets with a lot of the stunts and the tricky camera-work. Film critics and historians talk about the important of this film and what it did for Australia.

As you can tell, both Mel Gibson and George Miller are absent and this here is really too bad as it would have been nice having them on board since they were the two main people with the film. Still, as long as you get over them not being here, this featurette isn't too bad and it at least gives you a good idea of what impact the film had on Australia as well as all future action movies. We also learn about the alternate version that was released in America. Fans of MAD MAX will enjoy what's here but there's no question that too many key figures are missing.