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Exhilarating entertainment -- and a textbook for sophisticated, popular moviemaking.
A straightforward action/adventure film, filled to the brim with over-the-top chases and stunts.
A film of pure action, of kinetic energy organized around the barest possible bones of a plot.
Director Miller keeps the pic moving with cyclonic force, photography by Dean Semler is first class, editing is supertight, and Brian May's music is stirring.
For pure rhythm and visual panache, Miller has few real competitors; the climactic chase, with its deft variation of tempo and point of view, is a minor masterpiece.
An extravagant film fantasy that looks like a sadomasochistic comic book come to life.
An all-action movie that delivers all the violence and entertainment you could want.
Gibson is suprisingly uncharismatic, but Miller makes up for it with whizz bang action.
Perhaps needless to say, this is the film that made Mel Gibson an international star.
It's fairly compact at ninety-five minutes, and there is never a dull moment. (HD-DVD edition)
Few action flicks move as fast or as relentlessly as The Road Warrior.
I was still mightily entertained by Max, loooooooooved the way that those action scenes were shot by Mr. Miller and appreciated the whole mythology of the Max character.
Miller has just as much to say about human behavior and industrialization as he does about fast cars.
Miller's choreography of his innumerable vehicles is so extraordinary that it makes Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark look like a kid fooling with Dinky Toys.
Classic of its genre; Gibson is tops
Relying mostly on image and motion to tell its story, it's a classic action film representative of cinema at its purest.
A brutal, exhausting, relentless action masterpiece.
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