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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Reviews

mad max 2 movie review

The worldbuilding is possibly its biggest accomplishment, as you can start to see the elements of the wasteland take shape.

Full Review | May 31, 2024

mad max 2 movie review

The ferocious second installment brought Miller’s uncanny ability to mount action sequences to center stage with an immensely satisfying sequel.

Full Review | May 29, 2024

mad max 2 movie review

Crafting “The Wasteland” and the aesthetic of the franchise, Miller took a huge step forward with the franchise. His action direction remains spectacular, and the editing techniques forever changed action cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | May 23, 2024

mad max 2 movie review

The story wastes little time getting to the point, all lean and efficiently paced with none of the excess fats. It’s an action-packed sequel that [George] Miller made good use of the bigger budget than he had in the first movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | May 22, 2024

mad max 2 movie review

We may not feel crummy after the movie, but we feel hollow... The Road Warrior is for boys who want to go around slugging each other on the shoulder and for men who wish that John Wayne were alive and fifty again.

Full Review | Sep 19, 2023

mad max 2 movie review

Think of it as a spaghetti western on wheels, or a samurai adventure in the ashes of the end of the world, executed with comic book color and punk fashions.

Full Review | Jan 7, 2023

mad max 2 movie review

Technically triumphant but emotionally remote and a bit monotonous.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 1, 2022

The excitement that The Road Warrior generates is the excitement of power: power over circumstance, power over machinery, power over other people.

Full Review | Sep 13, 2022

mad max 2 movie review

This one is destined to be a box-office smash.

Full Review | Aug 10, 2022

Mad Max 2 is simply one of the hottest, liveliest, most entertaining sf films to come down the freeway in a long time.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2022

mad max 2 movie review

Miller, the storyteller, recites the entire legend of Mad Max within The Road Warrior, and it's a vision that echoes far beyond the reach of a single film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

There's plenty at tension, some humor and a lot of polish, but, finally, it isn't any more memorable than your last fill-up at the service station.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 11, 2021

mad max 2 movie review

...a classic turbo-charged tale of men and machines...

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 29, 2021

mad max 2 movie review

...heightened by a pared-down, streamlined narrative...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 15, 2021

mad max 2 movie review

Brandishes a costume-heavy look that would become the archetype for end-of-the-world, barren, nuclear warfare-devastated badlands.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 6, 2020

I felt less like a movie viewer and more an indentured servant.

Full Review | May 12, 2020

Mad Max 2 is only interested in the spectacle of blood and the violence of the fights. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Aug 23, 2019

mad max 2 movie review

At just over ninety minutes, there's not an ounce of fat on the thing, and it whizzes along like the souped-up V8 Interceptor that the title character tools around in.

Full Review | Nov 9, 2018

mad max 2 movie review

Out of the countless action movies produced in the 1980s, there only a few genuine works of art; [this film] might very well be the best of that extremely rarefied company.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | May 17, 2015

Miller doesn't take his foot off the accelerator for a second, and the ingeniously designed and staged road action is stunning.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2015

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User reviews

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

Mad max - back and better than ever.

  • KnightLander
  • Jun 19, 2005

This stirring movie in comic-strip style is packed with unbelievable car stunts, thrills, chills and noisy action

  • Feb 27, 2010

My Dad Was Right !!

  • Feb 10, 2005

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is the best classic epic Post-Apocalyptic Action Science Fiction film in the Mad Max Franchise.

  • Oct 2, 2015

Not just a mindless action flick

  • TeamRockwood
  • Feb 3, 1999

Rare Sequel That Is Better Than the Original

  • Michael_Elliott
  • May 14, 2015

The road is long

  • Feb 5, 2016

on the Road Again with Mad Max and his Dog

  • Aug 5, 2005

Violent, destructive action sequel. What it lacks in plot it makes up for with energy and action.

  • barnabyrudge
  • Aug 9, 2006

Exhilarating action thriller.

  • jiangliqings
  • Feb 28, 2001

It looked better than Mad Max

  • philip_vanderveken
  • Apr 17, 2005

One helluva film!

  • TOMASBBloodhound
  • Jun 11, 2005

Very much significantly better than the first

  • ForTheMostPart1999
  • Nov 7, 2022

A Grim Future

  • Lechuguilla
  • Apr 4, 2016

More proof that movies today suck

  • Jun 10, 2019

The quintessential action film

  • Sep 12, 2000

Nothing beats the original

  • Mar 16, 2019

Best of the trilogy, and a road chase classic

  • Leofwine_draca
  • Aug 19, 2016

Mean machinery

  • chaos-rampant
  • Aug 16, 2015

This is more like it

  • Aug 10, 2010

the best movie Gibson has ever been in

  • Dec 20, 2004

Road Warrior

  • May 18, 2015

Concentrated testosterone, and fun

  • May 1, 2003

The sequel surpasses the first movie by miles...

  • paul_haakonsen
  • Aug 29, 2014

Better than the original, but still average

  • Sep 27, 2016

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