If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This action film is not only one of the best post apocalyptic fantasy films ever, but it was one of the best action films ever. It was great until they decided to insert Tine Turner and later reboot with a woman instead of a man (sigh the cliches...)Mad Max 2 was thrilling, scary, non-stop, interesting, men were men and women were women hot, thin and sexy

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".

This film is highly regarded as one of the best films of the 80's, scoring a 98% fresh rating on rotten tomatoes, and personally I thought it was atrocious, now it's rare for me to turn a film off before the end credits, but this piece of garbage had it coming, there is no actual plot, the direction is shaky and unfocused, the acting is mostly laughable and really bad, with the exception of Mel Gibson, and it feels as if it were made by robots.Awful moments in the 43 minutes I had to endure include a scene where a woman is stripped of her clothing and brutally raped and killed for entertainment purposes, a braindead scene where a prisoner is shouting during the freak in charge's speech, which results in a nerdy looking guy punching that prisoner in the stomach, seconds later he rubs his head, saying "shhh it's alright", really? Is it trying to parody itself, because either way it's not funny, another sequence involves a boomerang killing what appeared to be a transvestite, the child who threw it was about 7 years old, moments later terrible acting ensues, and the scumbag in charge of the thugs, sporting a Jason Voorhees mask, says he will have his revenge, then they drive off, Gibson and the villagers make a plan to be rid of the thugs, and there's multiple action sequences. I refused to go further, because I was depressed at how god-awful this thing was, it's perhaps as awful as one of the worst films of the 80's, and that is Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, the third and most awful of this overrated, dreadful franchise.

Road Warrior was by far the best of the original trilogy as in terms of action, plot and style, which has been one of the most used in the majority of post-apocalyptic story- lines in films, TV series, comics and video-games. In short this one and the Terminator three years later are the archetype of how to make a world after we have destroyed your civilization. To the setting, years after the events of the first flick ,we see that the society has crumble due to the near complete exhaustion of the global oil reserves and now the wasteland is filled by motor crazy, gasoline hungry gangs and drifters who fight each other in order to get some petrol, because in the wasteland their but one rule : find oil by any means, because no oil, no mobility and then no food, water or protection. In general the creators of the film took inspiration from the oil crisis of 1973 and 1979 and went berserk with the idea. That was an amazing idea for the film hit hard then (and even now) to our dependence of the fossil fuels, which some day will be gone and then let's hope that we have find a solution to the problem.As for the plot, it is pretty simple in that desolation we follow our protagonist, the stoic Max Rockatansky, who shambles on oil rich community ,which is besieged by a gang of sadistic motorcyclist and decide to give them a hand for them to get out. That is,nothing more the rest in on the shoulder of the director George Miller, his co-writer Terry Hayes and the actors lead by Mel Gidson to make you invested to the plot and world they are in. Also that simplicity works to the favor of the crew and the film ,because they didn't have to think continuously what was happening and so they had their minds fixed on doing their best and in definitely paid of. As the production of the film, even though it had about tens times the budget of the 1979 predecessor it was still quit low so that premonition simple story allow them to focus it in them vehicles, stunts and costumes to bring this world to life.As for the action, holly cow dang(the no curse rules of IMDb is a bit annoying) even 36 years after holds up very well and the practical effects were amazing. Side note here one of the reason of why the stunts look so great and painful it is because some of them weren't stunts at all, the drivers for real lost control of their vehicle and face plant to the ground. Ah well you can't make an omelet with out breaking some eggs.In conclusion the flick rocks, it worth every minute of it (the 95 minute version) and if you want to make a film about how the world could be after we have devastated it then that is a good place to start your study!