Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

The model of the revenge film has been exchanged for a story set in a post-apocalyptic world, where oil is the most important thing a person can have, because without it, it will be very difficult to move forward in the barren landscape. The roads here are blocked by various scoundrels, but also by people who simply want to live. One of them is Max, who seeks revenge but has not given up on life. This time, however, he must face more scoundrels and help people defend their oil source. At times, it is absolutely iconic, the boy with the boomerang is perfect, at other times, it is quite ordinary, but it is important to realize that it is still a film that has already aged about 33 years. The environment will constantly make you feel incredibly hopeless. This is definitely a welcome effect. (03/05/2014)

Bigger, better... Crazier. The second Mad Max is a great spectacle, action packed from start to finish, full of deranged characters, dusty, hot and uncompromising just like the post-apocalyptic landscape in which it is set. The action doesn't lack ideas, style or surprises, Mel Gibson is excellent, so what more could you ask for? It's a shame that it didn't quite work in the third film. (05/29/2015)

The Road Warrior is a film I have seen many times and still enjoy. An action-packed post-apocalyptic blast and one of the top 5 action films of my childhood up there with RoboCop, Terminator, Alien, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Among other things, the film contains great costumes and technology, but above all, it manages to draw me into the plot and doesn’t let go for a second. (06/24/2016)

I skipped the first episode as a precaution and went straight to the second one, expecting brisk and raw action, and suffocating post-apocalyptic atmosphere. Well, I guess I overestimated it. The beginning was very promising, with a quick explanation of the events that led to the collapse of civilization, and then it was full speed ahead. But right after the first chase there was a big lull that lasted unnaturally long. For a while it was interrupted by the ugly bad guys, but then things calm down again, the initially working atmosphere completely fizzles out and I was really getting bored. Moreover, Mel Gibson, as great an actor as I think he is, only uses two expressions in the whole film, and by the latter I mean his final smirk. The final car chase was spectacular and entertaining, but it ended somehow suddenly, without much of a climax. And that's what the whole film is: it does its job, but I can’t say it adds something more than the bare average, nah! But I can't deny that it’s a source of a lot of inspiration to this day. 65% (04/14/2022)

A perfect action sci-fi just how I like them. The prolog is amazing (it beats most that you might see these days), a summary of all the important events in part one along with some glimpses of wars that caused the final ruin of civilization as we know it. Straight afterwards, we are treated to a great car chase with breathtaking stunts. We get to meet Max, who is looking for gas (like everybody else). He’s lucky. There’s a colony nearby with its own oil well. But nothing is for free... (06/23/2006)