Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior 5 stars out of 5 stars

This might well be 2 firsts for a picture.One,a sequel MUCH better than the original and two,I think its the first famous and successful of a new genre of film,the so called post apocalypse film.The film was released in 1981 and is a tidy 91 minutes.It stars Mel Gibson, in the role that really made him a star,as Mad Max Rockatansky .Max had lost his wife in the first Mad Max film as a oil shortage was turning Australia into a crazy land.Now a World War has caused Max to lose civilization too.How to survive??That is what this film deals in and the choices harken back to our own old west.There are no gray areas here.Only good and evil.Mankind has turned back to the stone age but with the remnants of cars and trucks.Gas is truly now black gold.Violence and car chases fill out the rest of the story which is sort of like the western were a lawman rides into town to save it from the bad guys.Nothing new but the firming of this new genre.Worth the view and bloody good fun.Trailer URL follows pix.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1156776217/