After avenging the death of his wife and young son at the
hands of a vicious gang leader, Max (Mel Gibson) drives the post-apocalyptic
highways of the Australian outback, fending off attacks from nomadic tribes
that prey on outsiders. Falling into an encampment led by the relatively
peaceful Pappagallo (Mike Preston), Max at first schemes to steal their oil,
but soon becomes the group's reluctant defender against the hulking Humungus
(Kjell Nilsson) and his ruthless marauders.
Plot
Following a global war and the collapse of civilization
after oil supplies were nearly exhausted, the world is in a state of barbaric
anarchy. Haunted by the death of his family, former policeman Max Rockatansky
now roams the desert wilderness of a post-apocalyptic Australia in a scarred,
black, supercharged V-8 Pursuit Special. Scavenging for food and petrol, Max's
only companion is an Australian Cattle Dog. After driving off a gang led by the
unhinged biker warrior Wez, and taking petrol from one of their wrecked
vehicles, Max finds an apparently abandoned gyrocopter and decides to collect
its fuel but is ambushed by the pilot. Max manages to overpower him and spares
his life in return for being led to an oil refinery that the pilot has
discovered. When they arrive, Max finds the compound under siege by the
Marauders, a motley gang of drivers and motorcyclists of which Wez is a member.
The Marauders' leader, a large masked man called "Lord Humungus", has
his gang attacking the complex daily, believing that the compound contains fuel
reserves.
Biding his time, Max sees an opportunity when several groups of the settlers attempt to break out of the besieged compound and are chased down by the Marauders. Max rescues the single survivor of one group and strikes a deal to return him to the complex in exchange for fuel. The man dies from his wounds shortly after Max takes him back, and the settlers' leader Papagallo reneges on the deal. The settlers are on the verge of killing Max when the Marauders return. Although Wez wants to kill all the settlers after his partner is killed by a metal boomerang thrown by a feral child living within the complex, Humungus offers the settlers safe passage in exchange for the fuel supply.
Max offers an alternative deal to Papagallo: he will procure a vehicle to haul the settler's tanker if they return his car and give him as much fuel as he can carry. The settlers accept but keep his car until he returns. That night, carrying fuel for the truck, Max sneaks out on foot with the Feral Kid's help. He again encounters the Gyro Captain and forces him to carry the fuel to the truck, a Mack semi which Max discovered after his initial encounter with Wez. With aerial support from the Gyro Captain, Max drives the semi through the Marauders' encampment into the compound. Though the settlers want Max to escape with them to the far North, Max opts to collect his fuel and car and leave. However, while attempting to break through the siege, Max is seriously injured when his car is wrecked after being run off the road by Wez in Lord Humungus's nitrous oxide-equipped vehicle. One of the Marauders kills Max's dog with a crossbow and is about to kill Max when Toady's attempt to siphon the fuel from the Pursuit Special's tanks triggers the car to self-destruct; both Marauders are killed in the explosion. Max is left for dead, but the Gyro Captain rescues him and flies him back to the compound.
Despite his injuries, Max insists on driving the repaired and now armoured truck with the fuel tanker. He leaves the compound, accompanied by the Feral Kid with Papagallo and several of the settlers in armoured vehicles to provide protection. Lord Humungus and most of his warriors pursue the tanker, leaving the remaining settlers free to flee the compound in a ramshackle bus, rigging the compound to explode. After Papagallo and the defenders are killed during the chase, and the Gyro Captain shot down, Max and the Feral Kid find themselves alone against the Marauders as Wez boards the truck to kill the two of them.
However, the semi's head-on collision with Humungus' car kills both him and Wez as the out-of-control truck rolls off the road while the surviving Marauders leave. As the injured Max carries the Feral Kid from the wrecked tanker, he sees not oil, but sand, leaking from the tank, revealing it to be a decoy which allowed the other settlers to escape with the fuel in oil drums hidden inside their vehicles. With Papagallo dead, the Gyro Captain succeeds him as their chief and leads the settlers to the coast, where they establish the "Great Northern Tribe". The Feral Kid (as an adult and the Northern Tribe's new leader) is revealed as the film's narrator, reminiscing about the Road Warrior, who departed for parts unknown, and now lives on only in legend.
Cast
Bruce Spence as the Gyro Captain
Mike Preston as Pappagallo
Max Phipps as the Toadie
Vernon Wells as Wez
Emil Minty as the Feral Kid
Kjell Nilsson as The Humungus
Virginia Hey as Warrior Woman
William Zappa as Zetta
Arkie Whiteley as The Captain's Girl
Steven J. Spears as Mechanic
Syd Heylen as Curmudgeon
Moira Claux as Big Rebecca
David Downer as Nathan
Jerry O'Sullivan (credited as Jimmy Brown) as The Golden Youth, Wez's companion
Movie: The movie fans at IMDB have given a score of 7.6, but Snake feels a much higher score is deserved. An action-packed movie from start to finish with plenty of stunts, terrifying characters and one of the coolest movie cars you’ll ever see.
Snakes Score: 8.4
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