Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) Movie Review

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In the future, cities will become deserts, and roads will become battlefields, but at least we will still have podcasts! We continue our Mad Max franchise review by watching what some call the greatest dystopian action film ever made, Max Mad 2: The Road Warrior.

Quick Facts
Directed by George Miller
Screenplay by Terry Hayes, George Miller, and Brian Hannant
Based on Characters by George Miller and Byron Kennedy
Distributed by Roadshow Film Distributors
Released: 24 December 1981 (Australia)
Budget: $4.5 million
Box office: $36 million (US)

Starring
Mel Gibson as "Mad" Max Rockatansky, a former member of the Australian Highway patrol
Bruce Spence as The Gyro Captain
Mike Preston as Pappagallo, the ideological leader of a group of settlers
Vernon Wells as Wez, a mohawked, leather-clad biker who serves as Humungus' lieutenant
Kjell Nilsson as The Humungus, the violent yet charismatic and articulate leader of a "vicious gang of post-holocaust, motorcycle-riding vandals
Emil Minty as The Feral Kid, an eight-year-old boy who lives in the wasteland near the oil refinery
Virginia Hey as Warrior Woman, a settler who initially distrusts Max.

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