8th Entry - Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

So you may have noticed we changed up the blog a little bit, mostly because we got tired of doing crappy stuff. So instead this week I'm going to do something good, namely the movie Doomsday wanted to be, Road Warrior.

While this movie is fairly old, it is still a very good movie by today's standards. It has great action sequences, awesome car chases and the main character is a total bad ass.

The movie is set in the post apocalyptic future. Gasoline has become the currency because to stay alive you have to stay mobile. So our hero Mad Max (Mel Gibson) drives a super bad ass muscle car with giant gas tanks (a v8 Interceptor). Seriously, this car kicks so much ass. The movie opens with him flying down the road being chased by bad guys, he uses a little bit of ninja driving and wrecks one of them and causes one of the bad guys to shoot the other in the arm.












He then sees this weird flying machine guarded by snakes. He then proceeds to grab a snake as it tries to bite him an throws it away, at which point to owner of the machine jumps out of the sand and then gets owned by Max's dog. In return for his life the gyro captain (by the way you know it's a awesome movie when they don't bother with names) shows him a settlement built around a fuel refinery. Of course he can't just walk in and ask them kindly because they are surrounded by bad guys. So he saves one of their people and rushes past the bad guys.

Turns out the people want to leave their settlement but they have no way to move their fuel. So Max, being the badass he is, knows where a truck that can haul their tanker is. In exchange for some fuel he gets it back for them. They offer to let him come with them but because he is a man he would rather wander the desert alone. So he tries to escape, but because the bad guys are dicks they blow up his totally awesome car and kill his dog.

So he goes back to the settlement and tells them that he'll drive their rig. Up to this point has all been building action. The final 45 minutes or so is just one long chase scene. This movie has the best car chases I've ever seen hands down. I'm not going to go into details, cause i can't really. You can't put into written word how kickass it is.

Bottom line if you like action movies at all and especially car chases, you should get this movie. I give it 7 out of 10 win-terceptors.