John Ley

Mad Max -- Set in the not too distant future, Mad Max is a chilling drama that combines a futuristic plot with high-speed car and motorcycle action. The stage is set for a strange apocalyptic death game between nomadic bikers and a handful of young cops. Mel Gibson stars as 'Mad Max', and later went on to play the title role in two successful sequels.

Follows the exploits of two young BMX experts, P.J. (Angelo D'Angelo) and Goose (James Lugton), and their friend Judy (Nicole Kidman) after stumbling upon a box of police-band walkie talkies. A small group of incompetent bank robbers were hoping to use the walkie talkies to snoop on police traffic and they will now do anything to get them back. The film boils down to a cartoonish chase across opportunistic sites around Sydney, including a memorable escape down the Manly Waterworks water slides, complete with BMX bikes.

P.J. and Goose are bored Australian BMX riders whose bikes have been totaled. Setting off on an intended fishing trip with their friend Judy, they stumble instead upon a cache of stolen police walkie-talkies, which they decide to sell for new BMX gear. Unfortunately, the radios had orginally been swiped by a murderous gang of bank robbers, with whom they soon become entangled.

In this high-flying crime caper featuring plenty of daring stunts, Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman makes her film debut as Judy, a teen who helps two of her best pals, bike-riding hotshots P.J. (Angelo D'Angelo ) and Goose (James Lugton), take on a menacing gang of grown-ups. After the trio stumbles across a hidden cache of walkie-talkies, they run afoul of some professional criminals and find themselves pulled into a maze of deceit.