In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The 80s were a unique and evolutionary time for movies everywhere: barriers were being pushed the world over, George Lucas broke new-ground on what was possible for movie sequels: by NOT making the same movie again and upping and ante on the characters and story, Blade Runner gave cinema the most beautiful flying cars ever conceived in the world of cinema, historical cinema was reinvigorated by Amadeus, The Terminator gave us film's most iconic Austrian cyborg, Back to the Future brought old-mixed-with-the-new to the movies, AKIRA pushed Japanese animation into the international spotlight and Who Framed Roger Rabbit was the first great 'crossover' movie. So where does Mad Max 2 fit into all of this? It introduced 'post-apocalyptic-dystopia' to the world and along with it a legacy of further Mad Max sequels, comic books, video games and a shit-tone of rip-offs and pastiche.Mad Max 2 was further proof that leading man Mel Gibson was more than fit to lead an action movie of this kind, and this movie alongside many others from the 80s blazed waves throughout the film-industry, and its impact can still be felt to this very day. Modern action movies owe so much to Mel and George Miller. Without this, we probably wouldn't have had the influx of over-the-top car chases thanks to this masterpiece. Need I say more?

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.

There is more to the Mad Max Franchise than just car chases and cashes. It is a story of a man named Max, it is his story, glimpses into his life after a world collapse. This story takes place after his wife and child were brutally murdered (the original film), the times are rough and the people are growing more desperate mainly for fuel. Gangs are everywhere, the violence is increasing and Max and his dog are in the middle of all it all - surviving any way they can.If you think about all the gangs and violence going on in the world as it already is then imagine if the world economy collapsed or even any survivors after WW3 -- I think you see where I'm going with this - the Mad Max films are not all that far-fetched IF the world economy collapses or WW3 happens in the real world. People are already violent, gangs and the world is a mess as it is. I find this franchise plausible: a fight over fuel.9/10

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!