1981 · action · thriller · sci-fi
Mad Max 2
Directed by George Miller1h 36m1981
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
Our read: Mad Max 2 (1981) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · thriller · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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