Mad Max

Five films with no chronology, because the man who made them says he never wrote one.

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Where to start with Mad Max

Release order, and ignore anyone who tells you to watch the prequel first. There is no real chronology to reconstruct here, because George Miller has said on the record that he never wrote one.

  1. 1
    Mad Max (1979) Mad Max

    A small, cheap Australian revenge film set on ordinary roads, before the wasteland exists. It is the only one that shows him with anything to lose.

  2. 2
    Mad Max 2 (1981) Mad Max 2

    The one Americans know as The Road Warrior, and where the series becomes what everyone pictures. It is told as a story someone is remembering years later, which is a hint about the whole franchise.

  3. 3
    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Mad Max: Fury Road

    Thirty years after the third film and effectively a fresh start, with a new actor and no explanation. It needs nothing before it and is the best of the five by most accounts.

Then what? Beyond Thunderdome sits between the second and Fury Road, and it is the odd one out in tone. Then Furiosa, which is a prequel to Fury Road and ends at the moment Fury Road starts. Watch it after, not before: it is built to pay off things you only recognise if you have already seen the film it leads into.

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The First Three

  • Mad Max 1979
  • Mad Max 2 1981
  • Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985

The Later Two

  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024
  • Mad Max: Fury Road 2015

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