After a tragic incident, Max decides to take the law into his own hands to seek revenge. Mel Gibson stars in the film as Max Rockatansky, a law enforcement officer patrolling the vast roads of Australia with the Main Force Patrol. That said, using the age of each movie’s star as a guide provides a good idea and a satisfactory answer for most Mad Max viewers while also reaffirming that the movies take place in their order of release (despite Max’s changing face). Mad Max is the 1979 post apocalyptic action film that launched the Mad Max film franchise. Mad Max 2 (released as The Road Warrior in the United States) is a 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic dystopian action film directed by George Miller. As a result, it is impossible to say for certain what age Max is in each movie since many can’t even agree on whether the apocalypse even happened in Mad Max’s universe. Meanwhile, the fact that both Fury Road and the far more grounded, realistic original Mad Max feature the same actor as their lead villain has even led some viewers to theorize that the world never ended and Max merely became more delusional between installments. The end of the world has no consistent cause between the Mad Max movies, with some saying it was civilizational collapse due to fuel shortages, some blaming nuclear war, and some implying a combination of both caused the apocalypse. As if the uncertain timing of this contentious offscreen nuclear war was not already trouble enough for canny viewers, there is also the issue of the cause of the Mad Max universe’s apocalypse changing from movie to movie. However, the fact that Beyond Thunderdome is set after the nuclear war and features a character who left his crashed airplane in 1999 confuses this chronology somewhat. This does track with the setting of the original Mad Max, which took place in the “near future” sometime after 1979, depicts a pre-nuclear war world, and is thought to be set in the mid-'80s. Mad Max: Fury Road’s prequel comics, for example, note that the nuclear war which wreaked devastation on Max’s home country occurred in 2015.
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