Also known as
Road Warrior, The
Lists
- ranked 6 in Men's Journal 50 Best Guy Movies Of All Time
- ranked 21 in Chris's List
- ranked 93 in Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
- ranked 280 in Empire 500 Greatest Movies (2008)
- ranked 436 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (August 2005)
- ranked 455 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (March 2006)
- ranked 479 in They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? 1000 Greatest Films (December 2006)
- one of 101^w102 Movies You Must See Before...
- one of The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made
- one of OFCS Top 100 Sci-Fi
Humungus Leather
One of the greatest action movies of all time. And one of the stupidest. It's so very hard to take a villain seriously when he wears nothing but leather underwear and a gimp mask. In the desert.
There's not much story, and no character growth to speak off -- with the exception of the gyro captain, who goes from criminal to slave to Stockholm Syndrome saviour -- but there's a couple of really cool chase scenes. Really cool. What more do you want?
It's for that reason that I consider it the best of the three. Far less ambitious than either Mad Max or Beyond Thunderdome, there's little to distract from Max running around being an action hero. The creators' explicit goal was to create something archetypically Campbellian, and in that they succeeded -- unlike the others in the series, the film's reach does not exceed its grasp.