NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

adonis98-743-186503 In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits. Mad Max 2 not only is a better film than the original but also has a much more interesting storyline. Max has completely gone Mad here and Miller doesn't need to showcase action sequence after action sequence to show us that. We basically see his every day life, his haunt for gasoline but also those bandits that he has to face and i think the villains were much more interesting in this one plus Vernon Wells once again delivers the madness within. Mad Max II is a Classic!!!

Johnny H. The 80s were a unique and evolutionary time for movies everywhere: barriers were being pushed the world over, George Lucas broke new-ground on what was possible for movie sequels: by NOT making the same movie again and upping and ante on the characters and story, Blade Runner gave cinema the most beautiful flying cars ever conceived in the world of cinema, historical cinema was reinvigorated by Amadeus, The Terminator gave us film's most iconic Austrian cyborg, Back to the Future brought old-mixed-with-the-new to the movies, AKIRA pushed Japanese animation into the international spotlight and Who Framed Roger Rabbit was the first great 'crossover' movie. So where does Mad Max 2 fit into all of this? It introduced 'post-apocalyptic-dystopia' to the world and along with it a legacy of further Mad Max sequels, comic books, video games and a shit-tone of rip-offs and pastiche.Mad Max 2 was further proof that leading man Mel Gibson was more than fit to lead an action movie of this kind, and this movie alongside many others from the 80s blazed waves throughout the film-industry, and its impact can still be felt to this very day. Modern action movies owe so much to Mel and George Miller. Without this, we probably wouldn't have had the influx of over-the-top car chases thanks to this masterpiece. Need I say more?

TheBigSick The 1981 movie "The Road Warrior" is a highly overrated action film. The story is naive and the action sequences are mediocre. There is simply nothing thrilling. Perhaps the only surprising scene is when Wez climbs up the truck and scares the Feral Kid. It can hardly match its 2015 sequel "Fury Road".

sol- 'Max Mad 2' - renamed 'The Road Warrior' in some places to attract audiences who had not seen the original - this big budget sequel to the iconic Australian action film is often regarded as superior. With a greater dose of fast-paced action scenes, livelier supporting characters, creative costumes and loads of cool weaponry (metal boomerang!), the acclaim is understandable. And yet, for all the virtues afforded by the bigger budget, the story does not resonate as well on an emotional level. Whereas in Part 1, Mel Gibson's Max is a loving family man slowly transformed into a vigilante so twisted with hate that his heroism is questionable, here he is a gloomy vigilante from the get-go and with less than twenty lines of dialogue, it is hard to get under his skin. A surrogate father/son angle almost develops between Max and a feral boy, but the operative word is 'almost' with their scenes together often feeling like they had the potential for more. Between the imaginative archive footage montage at the start of the film that provides more context that the original ever did, all those creative motor vehicles and all the aforementioned virtues, this is a difficult film to dislike. Knowing though the lengths to which George Miller and his team were able to get us to sympathise with the morally ambiguous protagonist of Part 1, it is hard to not also yearn for the original here, less polished as it may be.