Max Rockatansky (Gibson) is a motorcycle policeman in the near future. Since the apocalypse, the lengthy, desolate stretches of highway in the Australian outback have become bloodstained battlegrounds. Max has seen too many innocents and fellow officers murdered by the bomb’s savage offspring, bestial marauding bikers for whom killing, rape, and looting is a way of life. He just wants to retire and spend time with his wife and son but lets his boss talk him into taking a peaceful vacation and starts to reconsider. Then his world is shattered as a gang led by the evil Toecutter murders his family in retaliation for the death of one of its members. Dead inside, Max straps on his helmet and climbs into a souped-up V-8 racing machine to seek his bloody revenge. One of the most influential films to emerge from Australia, the film was much admired by J. G. Ballard.
Nicolas Winding Refn: “This is just great cinema – it’s relentless. And it’s a great fashion movie too. George Miller is such a natural director, so stylish. He was on the Cannes jury this year, so I’m not sure he liked The Neon Demon so much, but nobody’s perfect.”