Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

R

1981

1h 35m

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi

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After avenging the death of his wife and young son at the hands of a vicious gang leader, Max drives the post-apocalyptic highways of the Australian outback, fending off attacks from nomadic tribes that prey on outsiders. Falling into an encampment led by the relatively peaceful Pappagallo, Max at first schemes to steal their oil, but soon becomes the group's reluctant defender against the hulking Humungus and his ruthless marauders.

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Critics Consensus

The Road Warrior is everything a bigger-budgeted Mad Max sequel with should be: bigger, faster, louder, but definitely not dumber.

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Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

09/19/2023

We may not feel crummy after the movie, but we feel hollow... The Road Warrior is for boys who want to go around slugging each other on the shoulder and for men who wish that John Wayne were alive and fifty again.

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Dwight Brown

Sepia

08/10/2022

This one is destined to be a box-office smash.

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Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

08/25/2008

Exhilarating entertainment -- and a textbook for sophisticated, popular moviemaking.

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Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

07/06/2025

3.5/4

Miller’s vision of collapsed governments, feral gangs, and the ramifications of ecocide have become increasingly dire and prophetic in their glimpse at the near-future.

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Akhil Arora

AkhilArora.com

05/31/2024

The worldbuilding is possibly its biggest accomplishment, as you can start to see the elements of the wasteland take shape.

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Alan French

Sunshine State Cineplex

05/23/2024

9/10

Crafting “The Wasteland” and the aesthetic of the franchise, Miller took a huge step forward with the franchise. His action direction remains spectacular, and the editing techniques forever changed action cinema.

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Romas M

@Romas Aug 1

Greetings from Lithuania. "Mad Max 2" (1981) aka. "Road Warrior" is a great action film. Revisiting this movie in 2026 on a 4K UHD release was a blast - I've enjoyed it just as much as in 90's when I first time saw it. This film hasn't aged a bit due to spectacular action sequences that were made with zero CGI or computer graphics. What you see it is all practical and real. Therefore this movie stood out the test of time. It is a simple story yet very effectively told, just like "Fury Road" that followed in 2015. Overall, "Road Warrior" is a simple yet highly spectacular and entertaining action cinema. Terrifically paced, edited with pulse pounding music and excellent cinematography this movie is a genre classic.

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diogo13 T

@Tua_mera Jul 10

Melhor que o primeiro. Espero que melhore a cada filme.

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Thomas B

@Necrom Jul 9

This film is ingrained in pop culture. I can’t imagine a world without it.

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Drew D.

@Roadwarrior52 Jun 23

The best Mad Max film and the best action movie in general. Fury Road is fine but there’s something about this film that I can never look away from.

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Kristofer K

@kbkaizer May 13

George Miller find his footing in this visionary apocalyptic tale for survival.

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Vincent S

@Vin_E_At_The_Movies Apr 15

My favorite film franchise of all time gives us a superior sequel that is an action masterpiece. Giving us one of the five best car chase, action scenes in movie history and also a sly sense of humor thrown in. The series was starting to breathe. George Miller is a creative, action genius.

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Synopsis

After avenging the death of his wife and young son at the hands of a vicious gang leader, Max drives the post-apocalyptic highways of the Australian outback, fending off attacks from nomadic tribes that prey on outsiders. Falling into an encampment led by the relatively peaceful Pappagallo, Max at first schemes to steal their oil, but soon becomes the group's reluctant defender against the hulking Humungus and his ruthless marauders.

Director: George Miller
Producer: Byron Kennedy
Screenwriter: Terry Hayes, George Miller, Brian Hannant
Production Co: Kennedy Miller Productions
Rating: R
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 15, 2008
Runtime: 1h 35m
Sound Mix: Surround

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