All four movies from the action film series directed by george miller mad max 1979 set sometime after an apocalyptic war depicts a world in which the police have their hands full fighting roving motorcycle gangs when the wife and child of cop max mel gibson are murdered by one of the gangs he sets out to get revenge in mad max 2 1981 following the road side slaughter of his family ex cop max roams the post apocalyptic landscape alone reluctantly taking a pit stop at a desert s