The final chase, in particular, is an exercise in action craftsmanship. True, the following half-hour does move by a bit slowly, but it all builds up to a lightning paced final 45 minutes. What follows next is a short and exciting car chase. The movie begins with a rousing commentary over the events that led to the destruction of government. Having inspired dozens of rip-offs, The Road Warrior still remains the best of the bunch due to the great lead performance from Mel Gibson and the unrivalled car chases, which are very much worth mentioning. What follows is classic edge-of-the-seat action entertainment. Eventually, he makes another deal there, as he tells the people inside that in return for as much gasoline as he can carry, he'll bring the rig to them. Max, finding a perfect moment to strike a bargain, makes a deal with one of the survivors and makes it to the compound. An attempt is made by the people inside the compound to find a rig large enough to haul the fuel but the effort is brought down when Humungus' men take down all the cars. They are a pack of madmen, led by the Humungus, a hugely muscular man who wears a hockey mask to cover his face. It seems a large gang also wants the gasoline and has been besieging the refinery for a long time now. Max brings the pilot along with him and studies the compound from atop a cliff. He comes across a gyro-pilot (Bruce Spence), who tells him of a compound that's producing fuel. ![]() The loner, Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) is still wandering around the Australian wasteland, thousands of miles from civilization, in search of gasoline. The world has been devastated by a third world war and has suffered a setback by he rarity of gasoline. The film takes place presumably years after the conclusion of Mad Max. Yes, in terms of pure action, not many films have been able to equal The Road Warrior's thrills. The car chases are as excitingly pulse-pounding as ever and no film has yet to surpass the final chase as the best in movie history. *** 1/2 out of **** After so many years The Road Warrior still remains one of the most exhilarating action films to ever grace the screen. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again. a burnt-out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. ![]() Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. ![]() On the roads it was a white line nightmare. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. ![]() For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war, and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. and the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. when the world was powered by the black fuel. The man we called "Max." To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. No reason to hobble your experience with unrealistic expectations.Narrator: My life fades. If you saw this movie in the theaters 25 years ago and walked out hating it, give it another chance. Think Hook in the wasteland and that starts to approach it. This movie was much maligned when it came out in 1985, but that was due to the spectacular qualities of its predecessors, "Mad Max" and "The Road Warrior." Taken out of comparison with the other two, this movie is still solid post-apocalyptic fun, but it's lighter and slightly less violent than "Road Warrior" (as is evidenced by the PG-13 rating.) The actors' performances are perfectly adequate for the action, and the chase scenes bear all the hallmarks of Miller's craftsmanship (which contemporary directors should seriously consider studying and revitalizing.) You just won't see any arrow-riddled bodies slamming into the pavement at 60 mph or watch manned motorcycles sucked under the wheels of a big-rig.
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