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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior By Jim Emerson
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.
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"Mad Max 2 , more commonly refered to as The Road Warrior, is inarguably the greatest movie OF ALL TIME. [Editor's note: Inarguably? Hyperbole alert! Step away from the crackpipe, Snidely. It's a truly great action flick - a five star film - but not the greatest statement humankind has made on celluloid.] It blends genres so masterfully that it is like our own realtiy, indescribable and difficult to define. It's almost like watching a chronicle of our own destiny, as though we too, are to be doomed to wander a desolate wasteland created by the collapse of "The Machine That Man Made. " A demise wrought forth by the very hands that created it. A fitting end indeed for such a world." --Snidely Whiplash |
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|  | Director: George Miller
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| | Stars: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Vernon Wells, Mike Preston, Virginia Hey, Emil Minty, Kjell Nilsson
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| | Released: May 21, 1982
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