Why so much hype?

best movie i've ever seen.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

If the 80s were anything as far as movies goes, it was a decade of imitation. How many imitators did movies like Halloween and Conan "inspire" in the 80s? Another influential movie that would see a number of imitators was The Road Warrior. From Escape from the Bronx to 2019: After the Fall of New York, there were scores of mainly Italian post-apocalyptic rip-offs. Some good, some bad, but Warrior of the Lost World is easily one of the worst of the bunch. Plainly put, it's a dreadful movie. Forget about a plot – the movie doesn't have one. Characters we don't know (much less care to know) drive around on ridiculously modified motorcycles, cars, and trucks shooting at each other while dressed like some sort of Cyndi Lauper/New Wave wannabes. It's pathetic.Warrior of the Lost World "stars" Robert Ginty, Donald Pleasence, and Fred Williamson. Ginty is The Rider – a character with marbles in his mouth who spends most of the movie with his nausea-inducing, talking motorcycle. One of the lone highlights of the movie is when the motorcycle gets crushed by a rather large truck (not to fear – much to my dismay, the motorcycle reappears later in the movie). Pleasence is obviously in it for a paycheck. By the looks of things, his scenes were filmed separately and probably shot in a day at the most. Williamson does what he always seems to do – make goofy faces at the camera. His character, like the rest of the movie, is utterly pointless.There's really only one way to stomach something as bad as Warrior of the Lost World – catch the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of the movie. It's not the best episode, but it sure beats watching the movie on its own. While I've rated the movie a 1/10, I'll give this episode a 3/5 on my MST3K rating scale.

You could imagine this is what the writers of this "movie" had, because only severe childhood trauma could possibly explain how a story this outrageously stupid even gets past the "spontaneous idea" point, let alone becomes an entire movie! But here it is, existing solely for the purpose of our, the viewers', ridicule: Warrior of the Lost World! An epic of badness in which the well cast Paperchase guy showcases his immense acting talent, ranging from disgruntled mumbling to would be-sexy mumbling. Paperchase guy also has a totally awesome, talking motorcycle which could be described as HAL-9000's retarded little brother, more or less. Together Paperchase guy and HAL's retard brother must battle the combined forces of a crummy-looking villain in the form of a disoriented Donald Pleasance and the hauntingly named Megaweapon. In the end Paperchase guy gets the girl and uncontrollable gagging is guaranteed as the two tongue-wrestle.This is a fun piece of junk which moves at a high enough speed and features enough silliness to actually be worth seeing. The special effects are of course ridiculous, but what would you expect from a MST3K movie? What matters is that Warrior of the Lost World (the title could've easily been a catchy 80's pop song, by the way) is dopey, ridiculous, and ultimately quite fun to watch. And who can forget Megaweapon? What a beauty! Makes me want to build a plastic superweapon of doom myself!Fun piece of trivia for all movie nerds out there: one of the extras - Scott Coffey, who plays "geek" - eventually went on to work with none other than David Lynch! This, if anything, is proof that we all have to start somewhere! Thank you, good night!

The Exterminator himself, Robert Ginty stars in this so-so Mad Max inspired yarn as a mumbling, selfish hard arse who rides around a post apocalyptic world on a souped up, talking motorbike whilst intermittently having various tussles with a number of different tribal gangs who dwell in this (suprisingly lush, green and pleasant looking) new land. In addition, our man also finds himself up against a Nazi like regime headed by B-movie fave Donald Plesence and his 'Mega Weapon' (in reality a black painted tipper truck!)Obviously filmed on the cheap with less than spectacular action sequences, poor fx and some pretty dire acting throughout, the film does nonetheless provide some mild amusement for its running time if you approach it in the correct frame of mind i.e. don't expect much from it!Certainly one of the lesser efforts in the post nuke/road warrior genre it is still probably worth at least one watch if only for a bit of a giggle (and for some light nostalgia) at just what filmmakers could get away with releasing back in the early 80's. Having said this, I would admittedly still take this film any day over much of the high gloss/low substance crap that Hollywood churns out en masse nowadays!One final note: If you thought that Johnny no.5 from the Short Circuit films was bloody infuriating then just wait until you see the talking bike in this.....suffice to say, it induced in me a curious, almost uncontrollable urge to batter the hell out of it with a sledge hammer!

Oh my! This really is a piece of rubbish, isn't it. Luckily, I was able to watch it accompanied by the comments of Joel and robots, a la MST3K, so the pain was bearable thanks to their ribald commentary.Anyway, without repeating too much of what the MST3K gang said, here's my take on this awful, awful movie.To make a good (har, har!) sci-fi film, it appears you only have to have a limited cast, no plot worth a damn, have lots of smoke generators and add stupid sound effects to every mechanical device. The guns were my favourite effect. Although on the face of it ordinary weapons, they make the most ludicrous (and, after a short while, highly irritating) laser-like noises every time they are fired. And that happens a lot in this film.The hero (Robert Ginty) who has all the acting ability of a cigar-store Indian, talks in a dull, disinterested manner with just a hint of drunken slur throughout the movie, leaving you wondering whether he was drugged half the time. To say his character evokes no sympathy from the audience is like saying Hitler was misguided - a gross understatement.Persis Khambatta, as the love interest, is hardly less wooden than the hero and evokes even less sympathy, if that were possible. At least she had hair in this movie. Good job too, or there would be nothing about her character that had any life at all.Donald Unpleasant makes an appearance as Dr Evil but sadly there's no Mini-Me around for laughs. Likewise Fred Williamson shows up in this turkey, though he doesn't (like most of the cast) do a heck of a lot.Add in the hero's motorcycle, which appears to have a retarded Speak 'n' Spell built into it that dispenses such banal and inane pearls of wisdom as "Bite Me" and "Tubular" and the stage is set for the most awful movie experience I've seen for a very long time. The movie isn't even so bad it's good. It's just bad. Apart from the obligatory gun-fights and crappy locations, there isn't a whole lot to this film. Of particular amusement is the constant mis-spelling of the word "Perimeter" as "Parimeter" on computer screens.The funniest part, though, was the ending, where they set up the ground for a sequel. Thank God it never materialised. It didn't, right?The MST3K guys sum this movie up nicely. "It's not so much Mad Max, as Sad Max." See it only with their guidance and plenty of beer.