Rating: R
Genre:
Action
Release Date: 03/26/1997
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Director
George Miller's follow-up to his own 1979 hit
Mad Max is proof that not all sequels are inferior to their originals. If anything, this brutal
sci-fi action film is even more intense and exciting than its predecessor, although the state of its post-apocalyptic world has only become worse. Several years after the deaths of his wife and child,
Max (
Mel Gibson) has become an alienated nomad, wandering an Australian outback that has fallen into tribal warfare conducted from scattered armed camps. After a road battle with psychotic villain
Wez (
Vernon Wells),
Max meets up with the odd
Gyro Captain (
Bruce Spence), who takes him to the camp of a sympathetic group led by
Pappagallo (
Mike Preston). As
Pappagallo's people are camped at a refinery,
Max plans to take their oil -- more precious than gold in this world -- but eventually joins them to fight a band of marauders led by the evil
Humungus (
Kjell Nilsson). The stunning climax features a heart-pounding chase scene involving an oil tanker-truck and a frenzied rush for the coast, with
Humungus and his forces in hot pursuit.
Nilsson is a scary villain, with huge muscles and a sinister pre-
Jason hockey mask, but the stunt work is the key here, and it is more flamboyantly dynamic than ever, edited at breakneck pace and staged with manic fury by
Miller and stunt coordinator
Max Aspin. Savage and kinetic,
Mad Max 2 is a must-see for
action buffs.
~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
;)
