DVD Movie Rating for: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - Mel Gibson

3 out of 5 stars

Movie Plot of: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - Mel Gibson

Max is travelling in a post apocalypse Australia where Gasoline is the most valuable commodity. He becomes involved in a struggle between bandits and a town that has build defenses around a small refinery. He must cross the no man's land several times to allow them to make a dash for freedom, pursued by the bandits in their vehicles.

DVD Production Details of: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - Mel Gibson

Starring: Mel Gibson

Director: George Miller

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby

Studio: Warner Studios

DVD Release Date: June 3, 2003
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Cast of the movie: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - Mel Gibson

• Mel Gibson.... 'Mad' Max Rockatansky
• Bruce Spence .... The Gyro Captain
• Michael Preston .... Pappagallo (as Mike Preston)
• Max Phipps .... The Toadie
• Vernon Wells .... Wez
• Kjell Nilsson .... The Humungus
• Emil Minty .... The Feral Kid
• Virginia Hey .... Warrior Woman
• William Zappa .... Zetta
• Arkie Whiteley .... The Captain's Girl
• Steve J. Spears .... Mechanic
• Syd Heylen .... Curmudgeon
• Moira Claux .... Big Rebecca
• David Downer .... Nathan
• David Slingsby .... Quiet Man

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Reviews of the movie: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - Mel Gibson

A strong candidate for the designation of most thrilling action movie ever made (the turbo-charged exhilaration of its full-throttle highway chases has never been equaled), the second part of George Miller's post-apocalyptic trilogy is also a magnificently imagined movie myth. Like the Star Wars trilogy (by that other George) the Mad Max films draw their inspiration from the works of mythologist Joseph Campbell. In the 1979 original, Max (Mel Gibson) is a policeman, the last guardian of civilization and order in a devastated world reduced to chaos. But when a leather-clad gang of sadomasochistic speed demons mows down Max's family, his remaining connections to humanity are also permanently severed. After brutally exacting his revenge, Max wanders off into the wasteland alone, "a burned out shell of a man" who (to paraphrase The Searchers) is destined to wander forever between the winds. In The Road Warrior, Max rediscovers a sliver of his shattered humanity, and a spark of redemption, when he helps an embattled colony of pioneers fight off the savages who are after that most precious of all commodities: "guzzline." Max is transformed into a legendary hero, just as Mel Gibson was catapulted to international movie stardom. With its final stirring images, The Road Warrior transcends its genre (whatever that may be--science fiction? Western? action adventure?) and becomes something timeless. It's a great movie

Easily the best to the Mad Max trilogy.
In fact it isn't even close in my opinion. This one is set in an apocalyptic wasteland where the "hero" drives the roads simply searching for gas and avoiding others who are doing the same. He runs into some sort of pilot guy who tells him of a city where he can get all the gas he can get. He goes there and what he finds is a city with gas and a problem. Bunches of crazed warriors who want to break into the city and take everything and probably kill everyone in it. Max gets in to the city and makes a deal to get a truck so these people can get to the coast where they hope they will find a more civilized world waiting for them. Suffice to say this movie ends with one of the best vehicle action scenes ever filmed. Don't expect Gibson to talk much in this one as he plays a loner type, but at least he isn't dubbed like he was in the first Mad Max. There are some pretty good performances in this flick besides Gibson's as the bad guys all do a rather good job. Especially the really insane one who has to be chained up by the leader of the bad guys. One thing that really bothers me though is that we never get to see the face of the leader who wears a kind of hockey mask.