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Films like Mad Max 2.

Mad Max 2 (1981) reads as Heavy, breathless, extreme action / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Escape from L.A. (1996) poster
1. Escape from L.A.1996

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Batman Forever (1995) poster
2. Batman Forever1995

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Demolition Man (1993) poster
3. Demolition Man1993

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Chain Reaction (1996) poster
4. Chain Reaction1996

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Predator 2 (1990) poster
5. Predator 21990

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Moonraker (1979) poster
6. Moonraker1979

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Universal Soldier (1992) poster
7. Universal Soldier1992

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hollow Man (2000) poster
8. Hollow Man2000

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Timecop (1994) poster
9. Timecop1994

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Judge Dredd (1995) poster
10. Judge Dredd1995

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) poster
11. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country1991

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The 6th Day (2000) poster
12. The 6th Day2000

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Mad Max 2’s neighbours — where are yours?

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