![]() Max may have put some distance between himself and the violence of the MFP's responsibilities in order to spend more time with his family, but the roads have become increasingly lawless, the same violence spreading out across the country. But when Max's partner on the force gets torched alive, the MFP's best driver retires before he can meet a similar fate. When the last vestiges of justice eventually fail the MFP, Captain "Fifi" Maccaffee (who likely served as the stylistic forebear of the rest of the series' leather daddies and S&M getups) tells his officers to do whatever they must to bring the gang down, as long as the paperwork is clean. Much of the film follows the MFP using their scant resources to lock up the Acolytes, but a shortage of courage on the part of the victims allow the villains to walk free, even when the law has them squarely in hand. ![]() However, many critics of the time received it this way, and not without good reason. Without these moments of levity and downright strangeness, the film easily could have devolved into a bleak and hopeless slog. There are strange throwaway moments scattered throughout the film: Max's wife Jessie randomly playing the saxophone, their young child Sprog playing with Max's revolver, Charlie's mechanical voice box, and the Acolytes' spontaneous dance moves to name a few. But Mad Max is not without a sense of humor, a twisted and often black humor for sure, but humor nonetheless.
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