Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir #33. The road warrior

Genre: Drama, Sci-fi

Annee/Year: 1981

Format: DVD

The road warrior (AKA Mad Max 2). This has become a classic in it's own right. Following up to Mad Max which was a great success and made OZ wonder Mel Gibson known to the world. This film is still low budget but has not aged as well as a good wine. The DVD copy i own was a bad remider of what bad transitions to DVD/Bul ray can be like. I hope they restored the film to it's original quality on the blu ray.

The story is set in a post apocalyptic Australia filled with crazed biker gangs who are ready to kill anything moving for gas. The movie is gotta see before you get to the trilogies last part: Mad Max and the thunderdome which if i remember well was the good part. Well i will let you know as soon as I revisit this classic.

The road warrior est la deuximeme partie de la trilogie Mad Max. Cette serie nous a fait decouvrir un tres jeune Mel Gibson qui essaie de survivre dans une Australie post-apocalyptique. Le Jense Interceptor V8 avec supercharger est encore cool. J'aurai aime que la trame sonore y rende justice. Cette version DVD est d'inferieure qualite ce qui est triste. J'espere qu le blu ray offre une restauration de ce classique.

Great quote: Narrator: My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos. Ruined dreams. This wasted land. But most of all, I remember The Road Warrior. The man we called "Max". To understand who he was, you have to go back to another time. When the world was powered by the black fuel. And the desert sprouted great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel, they were nothing. They built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked. But nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. The cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting, a firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men. On the roads it was a white line nightmare. Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive. The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. Men like Max. The warrior Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. And became a shell of a man, a burnt out, desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again...

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082694/

Rating perso: 6.5/10