10 Movies That Prove The '80s Was The Golden Age Of Action

5. Mad Max: The Road Warrior

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Proving that you don't need to break the bank to create one of the greatest action movies in history, The Road Warrior may have been ten times more expensive than Max Rockatansky's cinematic debut, but it still came in at a thrifty $4.5m.

With a much bigger budget to play with, director George Miller doubled down on all of the ingredients that made Mad Max such a runaway success, and as a result the sequel managed to improve upon its predecessor in virtually every way, despite boasting a similarly bare-bones plot.

Bigger, louder, more aggressive and more spectacular in every conceivable way, The Road Warrior is a masterclass in turning what looks like a flimsy idea on paper into a super-charged post-apocalyptic Western that never lets up from the first frame to the very last.

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