I was quite surprised by this film, which I only saw for the first time about a week before this review was written. I've seen a lot of early-to-mid-eighties action films, such as Commando and Invasion U.S.A., as well as the original Mad Max (albeit in its messed-up American version), so I wasn't really expecting too much from this. It completely blew me away. George Miller and company took aspects of some of the best genres (e.g., samurai, western, etc.) and made a modern myth. They also managed to make one of the most satisfying climaxes in film history with the final chase involving the tanker truck.