Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior)

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Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior)

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Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior)

Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston, Max Phipps, Vernon Wells

In the post-apocolyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.

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  • 366weirdmovies
    July 7, 2009
    366weirdmovies
    In this post-apocalyptic sequel to MAD MAX, drifter and gasoline scavenger Max (Mel Gibson) reluctantly helps a village ship a load of petroleum across a wasteland ruled by a brutal gang of motorcycle punks. The unique, jury-rigged look of this universe is remarkable, the chase ...( read more)sequences are unique and among the most thrilling ever filmed, and Max drives an armored eighteen-wheeler through any plot holes so fast you hardly notice them.
  • garyX
    June 12, 2009
    garyX
    Mad Max 2 is one of that rarest of breeds; a sequel that actually surpasses the original. Like Desperado and Evil Dead 2, it is a big budget reinvention of the previous film rather than a true sequel per se. Mad Max was a powerful if flawed film that never quite lived up to the p...( read more)romise of its explosive action sequences. Once again, the film opens with an exhilarating hi-octane chase as Gibson's post apocalyptic man with no name stumbles upon an oasis of civilization under siege from a group of road predators. The film almost resembles a zombie film, except in this future where gasoline and ammunition are worth more than human life, the human race are being preyed upon not by undead monsters, but other human beings. The Australian outback makes a beautiful but believably desolate future wasteland and Gibson revisiting the part that made him a star has never equalled the grit and charisma of his performance here. The peripheral characters don't get much of a look in and the dialogue is suitably minimal, setting the stage for the true star of the show; the action. The brilliant production design which creates a similarly believable patchwork of scavenged technology became the blueprint for post apocalyptic science fiction; every sci fi film that followed copied it. The fantastic stunt and road level camera work makes for some visceral chase sequences in which vehicles and their occupants are smashed, crushed and sent pirouetting through the air with a sense of real time physics; there are no glossy Hollywood style slow motion pyrotechnics here; just an orgy of automotive destruction! A worthy addition to the tradition of Yojimbo and A Fist Full Of Dollars with a science fiction spin.
  • phubbs1
    June 8, 2009
    phubbs1
    The best Mad Max. The baddies are a real collection of leather clad loonies, love wells and the chief baddie. The look is cheap but it works very well, the final gas tanker highway chase is awesome and really shows some great punch ups and violence. The desert look really makes i...( read more)t seem bleak and like Star Wars' Tatooine it looks realistic. The ending is good and not the usual happy style, the whole film is very cruel, quite dark and excellently well made.
  • pier007
    March 15, 2009
    pier007
    A real blast of a sequel, less violent but a lot more spectacular.

    Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest is done again, as Kurosawa did in Yojimbo, Leone in Per un pugno di dollari, and the Coens in Miller's Crossing. That means, once again a stranger has interfered with two rebell...( read more)ious factions fighting for the power. The mysterious road warrior arrives in the dusty australian landscape to turn the battle into an exhilarating apocalyptic stampede, meeting new allies and enemies, each one freakier than the next.
  • DrBenway
    March 5, 2009
    DrBenway
    The Road Warrior is a film stripped of its' barest essentials to concentrate almost entirely on its action. Director George Miller and Gibson created the character of Max in 1979's Mad Max, a film that gained an instant cult following. That film wasn't too popular at first in t...( read more)he U.S., hence the name change of the sequel to The Road Warrior instead of the original title Mad Max II. Here we get the best of both worlds; The Western - with the lone horseman wandering into town to the inevitable showdown with the bad guy on a dusty road. The Eastern - with a ronin wandering the countryside trying to find peace in solitude instead finds a small village threatened by bandits, and is only interested in helping for self-preservation. The costume and production designs are bizarre but brilliant. Humungus and his gang are the kinkiest bunch of psycho nomads you'll ever meet, clad in chainmail, leather harnesses and shiny helmets, they look like they've strayed off the set of William Friedkin's Cruising. The good guys meanwhile sport Middle East-meets-Dynasty robes and shoulder pads. Then, of course, there is the action....FANTASTIC.

    The Road Warrior is about a drifter who sees no need to disrupt his lifestyle. Once he lost his family in the first movie, nothing else mattered. He took to the roads without a destination. That's the big picture for Mad Max. He doesn't wander around in hopes of finding civilization. He wants to stay as far away from people as possible. The wasteland is a large place, and it's easy to get lost there.
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  • amarpeterdutta
    December 20, 2009
    amarpeterdutta
    love the movie :D suspenseful and filled with action :)
  • SkywalkerJones
    December 13, 2009
    SkywalkerJones
    Two days ago, I saw a vehicle that would haul that tanker. You want to get out of here? You talk to me.-Max Rockatansky

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    Director:George Miller
    Cast:Mel Gibson,Bruce Spence,Michael Preston,Vernon Wells
    Genre:Action
    Year of release:1981
    Running Time:95 minutes

    Plot:
    Roaming the highways of post-apocalyptic Australia, years after he avenged his wife and son and his partner who were murdered by the motorcycle gang led by the evil Toecutter. Burnt out former Australian policeman Max Rockatansky, now known as "The Road Warrior" searching for sources of fuel, stumbles upon a gasoline refinery home to a community of survivors who are struggling for survival and finds the community is being terrorized by a band of brutal motorcyclists led by The Humangus and his finest warrior, Wez, who bid to loot all the gasoline from the refinery for themselves. The community hires Max, as Max agrees to help the community transport the gasoline across the highway and fight for freedom, as they are pursued by the Humangus and his warriors.

    Review:
    I always loved the Mad Max series since i was a kid and i was curious to see The Road Warrior because it s considered as the best movie of George Miller s apocalyptic trilogy.When i first watched Mad Max:The Road Warrior,it blew me away and is definetly one of the greatest action movies of all time and an oustanding improvement of the movie.Mad Max:The Road Warrior is the kind of movie that will never be beaten and puts into the shame those CGI craps of today.Mad Max:The Road Warrior is an standard in the action genre.

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    Mel Gibson returns as the futuristic ex-cop Max Rockatansky aka Mad Max,after defeating The Toecutter and his gang and avenging his family death in the first movie.In this movie,Max becomes a drifter and travels in the dangerous roads of a apocalyptic Australia with his V -8 Interceptor but suddenly he get involved into a war between Papagallo s tribe and the dogs of war leaded by the Humungus.Gibson was fantastic because he makes Max a mysterious but tortured character and at a same time a complete badass aswell.Mel Gibson is one of the reasons why Mad Max is a great series and i hope he makes the fourth one.I loved Vernon Wells as Wez,the most dangerous of the dogs of war.I loved him as Bennett in Commando but he s a one sick fucker in this movie.Wells makes Wez a relentless villain that has no mercy to his enemies.Bruce Spence was funny as The Gyro Captain,bringing a lot of humour to the picture and Michael Preston give a decent perfomance as Papagallo.

    George Miller makes a bigger,better and a more violent movie than the first movie.Miller s direction was fantastic and he delivers with the most spectacular action sequences ever made.The road scenes are absolutely insane that will thrill you every minute.

    Mad Max:The Road Warrior is one of the greatest action movies of all time and the best movie of series.This classic is one of my all time favorites movies and it won t be a explosive action experience like this masterpiece.Greatest action movie of all time.
  • watsupwithdat
    December 8, 2009
    watsupwithdat
    I didnt think it had much on the first one, but the ending truck chase made it better. One of the best car chase scenes I've seen and it was pretty gruesome as well. Gibson was made for the role and deserved shooting to stardom from this. The best thing is he didn't say too much,...( read more) but was still cool.
  • raidermatty
    December 4, 2009
    raidermatty
    What is it with these Sci-Fi action movies anyway?.I can't help it they Rock.Not only did "The Road Warrior" make Gibson an international star.The ending is Sublime and the Outback chase at the end rivals "Raiders" Desert Chase.High Octane thrills!
  • Yelverton
    November 29, 2009
    Yelverton
    Just as unappealing as the first.
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