The Road Warrior (Used)

In 1978, a young film director released his first commercial feature Mad Max - and the moviegoing world was astounded by an all-out cinema blitz that became an instant cult classic.

Now, director George Miller has gone a dramatic step farther in conception and tech-nique. The result is The Road

Warrior, an epic of action and carnage that comes at you full speed, sweeping you into a dreamlike landscape where the post-nuclear future meets the mythological past. It's also one of the most mind-blowing stunt films ever to hit the screen.

In his most popular movie role, Mel Gibson plays Max, who drives the roads of outback Australia in a never-ending search for gasoline. Lining up against him are the bizarre warriors of Lord Humungus, decked out in heavy-metal costumes heralding a new barbarian age. The battle is joined over a fuel-depot encampment — and the results are savage and spectacular.

Miller, who co-directed the equally spellbinding successor Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, credits as source material everything from Arthurian legends to comic books and samurai movies, wherein the hero, Miller says, "is always a lone, fairly amoral seeker....There's no real hope for him but because of some particular talent he's got — like Max's skill on the highway - hes able to give to a new order."

With The Road Warrior, the new order is born. And it's a blast.