I don’t have any previous home video releases of Mad Max 2, save a digital copy I bought on iTunes a while back, so I don’t know how those bonus features compare to what was originally offered, although it seems clear that all of them were ported over from previous editions. There’s very little dead air and almost none of the dreaded “let’s describe what we’re seeing onscreen right now” stuff that plagues lesser commentaries. Miller cites Joseph Campbell’s book The Hero With a Thousand Faces as a key influence on the script.įinally, the commentary track has Miller and Sempler getting into the nuts and bolts of the making of the film, including technical details like the kinds of camera lenses used and which shots were handheld. Several minutes are spent examining Max as an archetypal character not unlike a samurai, a gunslinger, or even a Nordic hero. Road War features Miller, star Mel Gibson, co-screenwriter Terry Hayes, and others looking back at the making of the film, from the director’s initial ideas for it to the finished product. (The film included here says Mad Max 2 at the beginning.) decided to ditch the Mad Max 2 title and call it The Road Warrior.

Maltin’s introduction gives a good overview of why Warner Bros. Only the second film has any, and they include an introduction by Leonard Maltin, the documentary Road War: The Making of Road Warrior, and a commentary track with director George Miller and cinematographer Dean Semler. The bonus features are scant in this set. But, thankfully, that’s not the case for much of the movie.

My only quibble is that Mad Max 2 looks like it had DNR applied a bit too heavily in some scenes – the characters sometimes have a plastic-like quality to them. These movies tend to have a darker color palette, especially the many underground scenes in Beyond Thunderdome, but they hold up well from beginning to end. I don’t have the previous 4K disc of that one, so I don’t know how it compares, but like the other films, it looks beautiful. A comparison of the two discs showed that there wasn’t much, if any, difference between them.Īll four films show a moderate amount of grain, even Fury Road. Warner says that all four films were remastered in 4K from scans of the original camera negatives, although it’s not clear if the Mad Max 4K disc uses the same master as the one Kino Lorber released.

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