The Road Warrior is one of those rare sequels that not only bests the original, it nearly obliterates any memory that the original even existed. Most US audience members didn't even know there was a Mad Max. The Road Warrior is one of the best comic book movies based on a comic book that never was. It offers frantic direction, do-it-yourself cars and sets, post-apocalyptic punk rock biker gangs, and one of the best car chases ever put on film. The art direction and costuming in this movie pretty much set the pattern for countless horrible post-apocalyptic knock-offs, most notably the big-budget abortion known as Waterworld. George Miller went on to produce one other classic movie... Babe... now that's variety.
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