Max Rockatansky Max Rockatansky Max Rockatansky is the title character and protagonist of the post-apocalyptic action films from the "Mad Max" franchise, which spans 1979 to 2015. He appears in the films "Mad Max", "Mad Max 2", "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome", and "". Created by director George Miller and producer Byron Kennedy, the character was played by actor Mel Gibson in the first three films, and by Tom Hardy in the fourth. In "Mad Max", Max Rockatansky is a Main Force Patrol officer tasked with maintaining law and order on the roads of a dystopic Victoria, Australia. Max is quiet, rarely speaking
Mad Max: Fury Road action and a surprising amount of narrative heft, "Mad Max: Fury Road" brings George Miller's post-apocalyptic franchise roaring vigorously back to life." On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating, the film has a score of 90 out of 100 based on 51 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade cinema audiences gave the film was a "B+" on an A+ to F scale. Robbie Collin of "The Daily Telegraph" gave the film a full five stars and praised the film for its acting, screenplay, choreography, stunts, humor, and direction calling the film a "spiritual sequel"