The Road Warrior (1981)
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Reviews Counted: 36 Fresh: 36 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.3/10
Consensus:
The Road Warrior is everything a bigger-budgeted Mad Max sequel with should be: bigger, faster, louder, but definitely not dumber.
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Synopsis: The first sequel to MAD MAX takes place after nuclear war has destroyed Australia. In this installment, Max lends his aid and protection to a small band of survivors who are losing their struggle to protect an oil refinery under siege by a band of savage, mohawked marauders. Playing very much... [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Vernon Wells, Virginia Hey
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Reviews
Exhilarating entertainment -- and a textbook for sophisticated, popular moviemaking.
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08/25/08
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A straightforward action/adventure film, filled to the brim with over-the-top chases and stunts.
06/10/08
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An all-action movie that delivers all the violence and entertainment you could want.
05/30/07
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Gibson is suprisingly uncharismatic, but Miller makes up for it with whizz bang action.
05/30/07
A film of pure action, of kinetic energy organized around the barest possible bones of a plot.
05/30/07
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Perhaps needless to say, this is the film that made Mel Gibson an international star.
05/30/07
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Director Miller keeps the pic moving with cyclonic force, photography by Dean Semler is first class, editing is supertight, and Brian May's music is stirring.
05/30/07
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For pure rhythm and visual panache, Miller has few real competitors; the climactic chase, with its deft variation of tempo and point of view, is a minor masterpiece.
05/30/07
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Few action flicks move as fast or as relentlessly as The Road Warrior.
05/09/07
I was still mightily entertained by Max, loooooooooved the way that those action scenes were shot by Mr. Miller and appreciated the whole mythology of the Max character.
08/04/06
Miller has just as much to say about human behavior and industrialization as he does about fast cars.
07/22/06
Miller's choreography of his innumerable vehicles is so extraordinary that it makes Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark look like a kid fooling with Dinky Toys.
06/24/06
Relying mostly on image and motion to tell its story, it's a classic action film representative of cinema at its purest.
08/29/04
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