Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3361 in DVD
• Released on: 1997-03-26
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 95 minutes

Amazon.com
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. --Jim Emerson

Customer Reviews

"The last of the V-8 Interceptors..."
"Great Mel before hammering in the nails of Jesus....post-apocalyptic goodness.....'walk away. I will let you live if you only walk away...'" PILATE: A Brutal Bible Tale

Best movie ever made
It started with Mad Max, then Road Warrior, and finaly Beyond the Thunderdome. All three movies are great, but Road warrior is by the best. Max drives a car around stealing gas when he finds it until he has to help a group of people escape from their gas stronghold. A group of banidits makes this much harder than it sounds, because they to want gas. Watch the movie to fall in love with it.

Max used to be a cop with a family
A son and a wife to love, now that is all gone, he is by himself with only a dog for company. He helps guard the juice.