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'Max Mad 2' - renamed 'The Road Warrior' in some places to attract audiences who had not seen the original - this big budget sequel to the iconic Australian action film is often regarded as superior. With a greater dose of fast-paced action scenes, livelier supporting characters, creative costumes and loads of cool weaponry (metal boomerang!), the acclaim is understandable. And yet, for all the virtues afforded by the bigger budget, the story does not resonate as well on an emotional level. Whereas in Part 1, Mel Gibson's Max is a loving family man slowly transformed into a vigilante so twisted with hate that his heroism is questionable, here he is a gloomy vigilante from the get-go and with less than twenty lines of dialogue, it is hard to get under his skin. A surrogate father/son angle almost develops between Max and a feral boy, but the operative word is 'almost' with their scenes together often feeling like they had the potential for more. Between the imaginative archive footage montage at the start of the film that provides more context that the original ever did, all those creative motor vehicles and all the aforementioned virtues, this is a difficult film to dislike. Knowing though the lengths to which George Miller and his team were able to get us to sympathise with the morally ambiguous protagonist of Part 1, it is hard to not also yearn for the original here, less polished as it may be.

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.

Clearly this is one of the best movies ever made regardless of genre. I first watched this movie as a college student in the 80's. The filming and action sequences were so far ahead of its time. Watching tonight some 35 years later still sends tingles down my spine. This is the best of the Mad Max series by far.