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Summary: This is what an action movie should be
Review: This movie is a full on, action packed movie. Mel Gibson hasn't played another character like this and I don't think he has it left in him now. The Road Warrior is the best of the Mad Max movies and it's very simple which is what makes it great. The stunts and action scenes in the movie are amazing. The last 25 or 30 mintues is just a non stop action scene and when it's all over you have to catch your breath. If you actually think about it, there are very few words in the movie and George Miller shows you how to make a visual action movie. This is the problem with most action movies, they attempt to rely on dialogue that isn't that strong to begin with, instead of telling the story with the action.
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Summary: One of the best action movies ever made!
Review: This is a great movie with tones of action.You think Gone in 60 seconds has great car chases,you should check out this masterpiece!If you like post-apocalyptic stuff this is the master of all post-apocalyptic things!I think this is Mel's best movie!It's a shame he and Miller have'nt risen to this level since!Anyway the chase scene at the end is first rate and the whole movie is great!
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Summary: The world gone wild
Review: It's just you now,alone in the endless wastes of the apocolypse,you're wife and son long dead,killed by the motorcycle psycos,but they paid the price or their mistakes,you and the black wraith that is your ride have seen to that,the scream of the last v8 interceptor was the final sound they heard...but that was so long ago...somwhere someone pushed the button and the world vanished in a flash and now you wonder, forever searching for the juice to keep you moble, a broken heart is your only companion,the sadness never leaves and your soal has forgotten how to fly,the days blur in timeless monotony never knowing what dangers await around the next turn,so you drive on because you can't turn back...This is the life of max,the road warrior.It's a great movie,even if you don't normally care for this type of thing check it out it's worth the time.
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Summary: fallout
Review: Computer players that know about what fallout is, they'll die for this movie. Just like playing fallout, this is a perfect classic!
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Summary: Incredible action.
Review: With the exception of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade, The Road Warrior was perhaps the best pure action film of the 80's. What makes the movie so great? Probably the fact that it hasn't dated since it's initial release (mohawks seem quite common in Australia so that's not an 80's fashion) and the chase scenes are at least a dozen times more thrilling than what Hollywood has given us in that terrible car chase flick, Gone in 60 Seconds. The Road Warrior is an action masterpiece in its own right, and is notable for even watching only the film's final action sequence, a 15-minute long car chase that is the best and most exciting chase I've ever seen. The Road Warrior must be seen.
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Summary: Oilworld and the Raggedy Man
Review: According to the production notes that come with this beautifully restored version of the film, the filmmakers read books by Joseph Campbell before writing the screenplay for The Road Warrior. What they had tapped into intuitively with the first movie, Mad Max (1979), they brought to full consciousness in the sequal. It shows. The Road Warrior is about story telling, it's about how culture, religion and the myths of the hero evolve in the primitive conditions of human beings fighting to survive upon the earth. The characters are archetypal, the situations are primal, the technology has been reduced to what would remain in the wastelands after an atomic war. There is so much at work here in terms of universal themes: the tension between ID And civilization, order and chaos, civilized religion and paganism, mind and body. These themes would reappear in the 1985 sequal Beyond Thunderdome as Tina Turner attempts to carve a city out of the wasteland, the mind-body split coming in the form of Master Blaster, but that's another movie). Here things are grim indeed: A policeman has been reduced to scavanger and seems indifferent to the attempts of the refinery tribe to rebuild society (as Max puts it in Beyond Thunderdome to the tribe of children wanting to return to their city of birth, "There's nothing left. It's all gone!") The brutal mass-murdering Humongous, a cross between a WWF wrestler and Doctor Doom., is a vile evil villian but his voice cracks when he confesses a yearning for an end to violence and pain. We get a sense that the morality of the Mad Max world is complex and not easily reduced. Although the two-dimensional characters are grinning, savage beasts of violence, at least they are honest. It is the good guys who betray Max in the end. And the last image of Max standing in the wilderness, without car, without dog, without home or safety, left to find shelter in the midst of nothing, existing now only in memory, is one of the greatest and most powerful moments in film history.
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Summary: This Is the greatest Sci-Fi movie
Review: The Road Warrior is just the best. Post-apocalyspe films never looked so good. We see Mel return from his role as Mad Max and wandering the wastelands in search of gasoline, then meeting up with a band of rebels taking on some mauraders who want their compound and gasoline etc. etc. Just watch the movie, oh and the reviewer who said Road Warrior was dubbed, they were mistaken, Mad Max was dubbed over, not the Road Warrior, and the aussie dialouge Mad Max is great, wish they wouldn't have dubbed it in the first place. OH well. peace.
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Summary: A Gem Hidden in this Movie You may Have Heard About...
Review: Action movies remind me of the true beauty of motion pictures, how a story can be told through visual arrangement and motion across the frame, instead of dead dialog and two motionless actors conversing. Those movies are like filmed plays, while others draw from their silent black & white roots, telling stories without words. Road Warrior contains one of the finest examples of this - such a small moment, a minor obstacle overcome, yet which dances boldly across the screen like a painter. Here is the magic, shot by shot. Halfway through the final chase sequence, a red hotrod approaches Max's big rig truck from behind with intention to kill him. In a shot that has been copied many times, Max emerges from the cab and thrusts his shotgun into the camera - forced perspective, moving right then left, back to front in a zig-zag across the screen. Bad guy's head explodes like a firecracker, and we are treated to a scream of delight from Max's wild wolf-boy friend - an animalistic reaction to violence ironically given from a child raised by animals. Now we have a series of jump cuts which tell the little story of the red car losing control and hitting other bad guy vehicles. That little story is closed by the famous and almost peaceful shot of one man flipping head over heels in a horizontal fall, again in forced perspective flying at the camera. Now another series of jump cuts as we jump back to the red hotrod and it's fight to stay out from under Max's huge wheels. In a beautiful play of movement, the car dances in front of Max's truck, darting back and forth in front of Max and our screens like a dangling carrot, until we have a third masterful forced-perspective shot: the camera approaches the grill of the truck, then moves up and into the cab at Max, when Max finally ends this car's misery by nailing it in an explosion of gasoline and metal bits. Such sick, twisted beauty... Did you know that George Miller, the director of Road Warrior, also directed Babe?
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Summary: When will we get to HEAR the ORIGINAL?
Review: I'm not sure how many people realize that when "The Road Warrior" was first released, it was given a DUBBED soundtrack. The Australian accents were deemed too difficult for the average American moviegoer. As far as I know, this is the ONLY version available. It would only be fair for this listing to indicate that Mel Gibson's voice is no where to be heard. (Incidently, the dubbing was done by actors of modest talent.) Now that Mel Gibson is an international star with a highly recognizable speaking voice, and now that Australian movies have been popular in the US for decades, would it be asking too much to have "The Road Warrior" remastered with its ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK??!!
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Summary: Under Siege
Review: Max wanders across the windswept desert of post-nuclear Australia with no sense of purpose until he comes across a community who possess a valuable commodity - fuel. The only problem is that this community is under siege by a band of apocalyptic barbarians, led by the savage Lord Humungus. This masked warmonger tries using violent persuasion to make the community submit their fuel reserves, with no success. At first Max wants nothing to do with the conflict raging between the two tribes. Later he agrees to a plan that will get the community away from the savages and on to a better place. This sets the story for one of the best action movies ever made. It's ironic that the conflict over the fuel mirrors the conflict over that "black liquid" that led to nuclear war. Greed is one of our deadliest traits. There's no question that this film created a hoarde of inferior imitations - "Warlords of the 21st Century" (the plot is an exact clone of "Road Warrior"), "Def Con-4", "Warriors of the Apocalypse", "Warriors of the Wasteland". There's also a computer game called "Outland", which is set in Australia 108 years after a nuclear war. In that game you travel in a black car like Max's and fight barbarians chasing you with motorcycles, guns and crossbows. There's even people flying in those gyrocoptors like the one seen in "Road Warrior". This film makes you realize how low survivors really would sink after the ultimate war. It sure would be a desperate time to live. With a film like "Road Warrior" it's much more fun to be an observer than a participant.
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