Blu-Ray dvd movie review of The Road Warrior
March 28, 2009
The Road Warrior still remains to be an action film worthy of emulation. So many movies have copied and recopied this classic action thriller starring Mel Gibson. Even today, the car chase scenes are as great as any movies released today. The sequel to the Mad Max lives up to the first one and even surpassing it in my opinion.
The film picks up few years after the end of the first movie where the world has been laid waste by the last great war. This post apocalypse world is where we once again meet Max, Mel Gibson, who is still wandering around in Australian wasteland. He is in search of gasoline when he runs into someone who tells him that there is a place where gas is being produced. He and this informant heads out to find the compound only to realize band thugs have been attacking them to steal the gasoline. Max makes a deal with to deliver the fuel from refinery in exchange for some fuel. This sets up the thrill ride with bunch of deaths and mayhem.
Mad Max put Mel Gibson on the map as a great actor. The car chase scenes remain the hall mark of this great franchise. The final chase scene is particularly exciting and one of the greatest car chase scenes in the cinema. It’s fitting that Mel Gibson has attained a great success as actor just like Harrison Ford after the Star Wars saga. This was one of his best performances as actor. Mad Max remains one of the most entertaining films ever produced.
What do you think about this movie? Please leave your thoughts below.
Click here to buy above blu ray movie at 20% off or more on Amazon.com!!
loading...
never got the item!!!
I purchased THE ROAD WARRIOR from Amazon over a month ago, at the end of February, and have STILL NOT RECEIVED IT!!!! What the hell is going on with it? Numerous e-mails I’ve sent have gone unanswered… this is beyond ridiculous… don’t even know what to do about this anymore…
loading...
One of the CLASSICS of the Action genre!
“The Road Warrior” is one of the CLASSICS of the Action genre. I used to LOVE it when the GREAT Joe Bob Briggs used to show this on “Monstervision” on TNT on Saturday nights!
That is where I learned all these facts about this movie! Joe Bob said that during the climactic chase that makes up the last half hour of the movie that director George Miller mounted cameras on moving vehicles for better camera shots! And NUMEROUS stunt men were nearly killed!
The plot of the movie could NOT be more timely. The fight for gasoline! Imagine that. A world where gasoline creates a problem! Only in the movies, huh?
I have one question: WHERE is the Two-Disc “Special Edition”?!
“He exists now, only in my memory”
loading...
One of the CLASSICS of the Action genre!
“The Road Warrior” is one of the CLASSICS of the Action genre. I used to LOVE it when the GREAT Joe Bob Briggs used to show this on “Monstervision” on TNT on Saturday nights!
That is where I learned all these facts about this movie! Joe Bob said that during the climactic chase that makes up the last half hour of the movie that director George Miller mounted cameras on moving vehicles for better camera shots! And NUMEROUS stunt men were nearly killed!
The plot of the movie could NOT be more timely. The fight for gasoline! Imagine that. A world where gasoline creates a problem! Only in the movies, huh?
I have one question: WHERE is the Two-Disc “Special Edition”?!
“He exists now, only in my memory”
loading...
The Best, the original!
Ok, ok, i know this wasn’t the first film in the series, but as far as I’m concerned its the best and the original that all other post-apoc movies were based on. later!
loading...
A movie without wires…
CG, models, and no emotard actors. No pretty boys -correct that- on the good guy side. And Explosions!!! Gibson, that Jew hating drunk was at his start and it shows in spades, but playing a gruff tired man worked fine for him here.
The director used a lame excuse for the settings, but the action and VIOLENCE more then compensates!
Blu-ray sadly shows the poor print unfortunately.
loading...
The Best, the original!
Ok, ok, i know this wasn’t the first film in the series, but as far as I’m concerned its the best and the original that all other post-apoc movies were based on. later!
loading...
A movie without wires…
CG, models, and no emotard actors. No pretty boys -correct that- on the good guy side. And Explosions!!! Gibson, that Jew hating drunk was at his start and it shows in spades, but playing a gruff tired man worked fine for him here.
The director used a lame excuse for the settings, but the action and VIOLENCE more then compensates!
Blu-ray sadly shows the poor print unfortunately.
loading...
Question re the language
Could anyone advise me whether the audio soundtrack is in the original Australian version or the dubbed American (as was my NTSC Laserdisc version of the Road Warrior). I am from SA, Australia and have entered the world of Blu-ray. Without doubt Mad Max 2 (the Road Warrior) is my all time favourite movie. I hope not to be disappointed with the BD copy. I will purchase it either way.
Thnx in advance.
loading...
Question re the language
Could anyone advise me whether the audio soundtrack is in the original Australian version or the dubbed American (as was my NTSC Laserdisc version of the Road Warrior). I am from SA, Australia and have entered the world of Blu-ray. Without doubt Mad Max 2 (the Road Warrior) is my all time favourite movie. I hope not to be disappointed with the BD copy. I will purchase it either way.
Thnx in advance.
loading...
Mel’s Finest Moment!
Mel Gibson the actor, I love him. He’s great in everything he’s ever been in, even if the movie he’s staring in is less than great. But Mad Max, and even more so the Road Warrior are in this reviewers opinion his finest moments on celluloid. To say that Mel is electrifying in this movie is an understatement.
I remember catching this movie for the first time on HBO back in 1983. Yes, it had already been in theaters and gone for two years, but back in those days it took a long time for HBO to get big major motion pictures. Not like it is today where at the most six months later the biggest of movies will play on HBO, Sho Time, Cinemax etc. I was 15 years old at the time and remember thinking I had just seen the best sci-fi/action/adventure movie I had ever seen in my then short life. Well here it is 25 years later and guess what, this is still the best sci-fi/action/adventure movie I’ve ever seen. In all these years its greatness has never been eclipsed, and it’s doubtful it ever will be. The characters in this movie will forever be etched on my brain’s visual cortex; the Gyro Captain, the Feral Kid, Lord Humungus, Wez, and of course Max himself.
With today’s “hyper-frenetic, CGI driven, need to be impressed and stimulated at all times youth,” who knows what a 15 year old would think of the Road Warrior seeing it for the first time today. However I have to hope even this fickle, hard-to-impress crowd would find this movie as exhilarating, important, and relevant as I did 25 years ago and still do to this day.
loading...