Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

R

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1 hr. 35 min.

Action

Adventure

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93%

58 Reviews

Tomatometer

86%

50,000+ Ratings

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After avenging the death of his wife and young son at the hands of a vicious gang leader, Max (Mel Gibson) drives the post-apocalyptic highways of the Australian outback, fending off attacks from nomadic tribes that prey on outsiders. Falling into an encampment led by the relatively peaceful Pappagallo (Mike Preston), Max at first schemes to steal their oil, but soon becomes the group's reluctant defender against the hulking Humungus (Kjell Nilsson) and his ruthless marauders.

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Critics Consensus

The Road Warrior is everything a bigger-budgeted Mad Max sequel with should be: bigger, faster, louder, but definitely not dumber.

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David C

La actúa del niño perro es muy buena la historia es buena la acción de Mel Gidzon es muy buena

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/21/24

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Jean C

Excellent and entertaining movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/13/24

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Aaron C

all hail George Miller! and his influence Buster Keaton!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/02/24

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Price M

Best Mad Max movie ever!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/28/24

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B Dub

An instant cult classic! A must see!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/10/24

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Teddy B

If not the best entry, 'Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior' is a viscerally alive film that still has the quiet thoughtfulness of the first but expands very satisfyingly upon the concepts and ideas that the original only brushes upon.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/12/24

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George Miller

Director

Mel Gibson

Max

Bruce Spence

The Gyro Captain

Emil Minty

The Feral Kid

Vernon Wells

Wez

Michael Preston

Pappagallo

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Pauline Kael

New Yorker

We may not feel crummy after the movie, but we feel hollow... The Road Warrior is for boys who want to go around slugging each other on the shoulder and for men who wish that John Wayne were alive and fifty again.

Sep 19, 2023

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Dwight Brown

Sepia

This one is destined to be a box-office smash.

Aug 10, 2022

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Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

Exhilarating entertainment -- and a textbook for sophisticated, popular moviemaking.

Aug 25, 2008

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

Think of it as a spaghetti western on wheels, or a samurai adventure in the ashes of the end of the world, executed with comic book color and punk fashions.

Jan 7, 2023

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Rob Gonsalves

Rob's Movie Vault

Technically triumphant but emotionally remote and a bit monotonous.

Rated: B

Dec 1, 2022

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Michael Bronski

Gay Community News (Boston)

The excitement that The Road Warrior generates is the excitement of power: power over circumstance, power over machinery, power over other people.

Sep 13, 2022

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Synopsis

After avenging the death of his wife and young son at the hands of a vicious gang leader, Max (Mel Gibson) drives the post-apocalyptic highways of the Australian outback, fending off attacks from nomadic tribes that prey on outsiders. Falling into an encampment led by the relatively peaceful Pappagallo (Mike Preston), Max at first schemes to steal their oil, but soon becomes the group's reluctant defender against the hulking Humungus (Kjell Nilsson) and his ruthless marauders.

Director: George Miller
Screenwriter: Terry Hayes, George Miller, Brian Hannant
Production Co: Kennedy Miller Productions
Rating: R
Genre: Action, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 15, 2008
Sound Mix: Surround

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