Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

Director: George Miller

1981 / 96min / 35mm

In the years following the events of Mad Max the world has gone to hell in a handbasket, with warlords battling over a dwindling fuel supply in an unforgiving Outback landscape, but Miller’s ability to command a budget has progressed considerably, making this first sequel a considerably more ambitious piece of work, a film of epic scope, inspired set pieces, and nonstop kinetic energy. Barbarians have arrived at the gate of an all-too-rare functioning oil refinery, and the facility’s denizens could sure use some help fending off “Lord Humungus” and his men from taciturn ronin Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson)—a dangerous dude in any circumstances, and a real handful if you lay a hand on his Australian Cattle Dog companion.

Distributor: Park Circus

Part of The Dog Dies