9/10
Get ready for a full throttle ride of action & cheese.
6 September 2020
Five seconds in and this film is already the most Mad Max rip-off of all the Mad Max rip-offs. But don't hold that against it, it has cool cars, over-the-top amazing action, cheesy characters, dodgy plot (I'm not even sure there is one) and bare breasts. It has everything with no expenses saved on explosions and weaponry (they must of hired the full Philipino armies arsenal). Only for Commando being released on the same year, this film would of been the most actioniest and cheesiest of 1985. In all honesty this is what should of been filmed instead of the lost kids sequences in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

Max Rockatansky... I mean Trace (Gary Watkins) the wanderer in Mad Max's V8 and leather pants must save his sister Arlie (Lynda Wiesmeier) from Scourge (Joe Mari Avellana) and his gang of bandits. Trace finds help from Stinger (Laura Banks) and her Bird of Prey. Scourge himself is laying plunder to the wasteland, will the True Believers save their tin foil rocket ship and can The Ownership win the war.

Acting is not bad, great cheesey action, dubbing is poor in spots, plot is awful (I assume it's what's going on somewhere else in the Mad Max Universe). Brilliant chase scenes involving great cars, dune buggies and motor bikes, at least one of those bikers took a bad hopper in one of those crazy chase sequences (the ones not travelling at 5 mph). All out action with guns, mortars and plain old beat 'em ups. A full on battle with a terrible booby-trap, sex slaves, underground cannibals, scavengers, gasoline or lack of, mind readers and a final death scene out of the top drawer. This is a must watch.

Cheese melt scenes to look out for. Approx 21:50 in a 40ft cliff jump. Approx 48:30 in the love scene worthy of an Oscar.
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