Variety
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.
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Mel Gibson returns as Max, the heroic loner who drives the roads of post-nuclear, outback Australia in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defenders of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by The Humungus, notorious for never taking prisoners when they can pulverize them instead. When the battle is joined, the results are savage…
1981Rating: MA15+, Medium level violence91 minsAustralia
ActionAdventure
- Director:
- George Miller ('Mad Max', 'Happy Feet', 'Lorenzo's Oil')
- Writer:
- George MillerTerry HayesBrian Hannant
- Cast:
- Mel GibsonBruce SpenceMichael PrestonMax PhippsVernon WellsVirginia HeyWilliam Zappa
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior / Reviews
Time Out
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.
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An extravagant film fantasy that looks like a sadomasochistic comic book come to life.
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Roger Ebert
A film of pure action, of kinetic energy organized around the barest possible bones of a plot.
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Empire Magazine
Gibson is suprisingly uncharismatic, but Miller makes up for it with whizz bang action.
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