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This film comes to us from Italy, though a lot of the stars and the director are from the United States. I saw this film courtesy Mystery Science Theateer 3000 and it was something a bit different. Kind of an Italian take on the Mad Max films, but not very good. From what I have heard from interviews with the director who is a very cool guy who actually responds when you write him, he basically had to craft a movie with almost a nonexistent script and with more of just an idea. He also said that they were going to do a sequel and if they had, Donald Pleasence would be back and he was going to be ticked! The story is the main problem with this one as is the lack of budget. Also, they really should have went the route a lot of other Italian films and went into overdrive with things like gore, over the top action and some nudity! Instead, it plays out more like a direct to video film that seemed like it wanted to be a seriously weak version of Mad Max.

The story has a man riding his super motorcycle that has a very annoying voice (yes, it talks) through the very green wasteland. Yeah, Mad Max works because the desert scenery makes it look like a desolate wasteland. Here, it could not look nicer with lush trees all over the place. Well, first this rider runs afoul of this strange police force before then getting attacked by random dudes. Mad Max would have killed most of them and gotten their gas, rider simply drives around and takes bullets and arrows before crashing into a wall. He is then healed by these monk type people who have the ability to use light to heal and just forget about them as you won't see them anymore until the end as the rider meets a girl and they are soon trying to infiltrate the bad guy's place and then the guy is deserting the girl and then a scene where they are riding down the road and having an action scene fighting a garbage truck and soon everyone is happy though one guy who could have killed everyone and ruined all the plans is found out to be bad and the girl and rider mysteriously fall in love even though the film never had an area where they could find the time to get together and fall in love, they pretty much hated each other and then the rider deserted her!

This made for a very funny episode of MST3K as they had some great jokes. They also kept referring to Robert Ginty as the Paper Chase guy, in reference to the fact he was on that show. However, I thought they overdid that joke as Paper Chase was not exactly a well known show. It lasted maybe two seasons and I do not even think Ginty was a main player in it, I had never heard of the show before this episode. For the most part the jokes were great as I enjoyed watching that motorcycle get crushed also!

So this film was not all that good. It was kind of all over the place as it tried to be Mad Max, but failed miserably. They just had too many things that did not fit the Mad Max formula. They had car chases and a few vehicles and characters that one could sort of see in a Mad Max film, but then they had the greenery and nice landscape that did not work. The strange monk people that had healing abilities also did not fit. In the end just kind of a mess of a film and one of the reasons that you should have a complete script rather than just try to throw a movie together with a few ideas.

Elegantly, wonderfully, deliciously bad. The only way to truly appreciate this cinematic train wreck is to watch the MST3K version (less than a minute into the opening credits, Tom Servo asks, "Is it too late to kill myself?") Robert Ginty mumbles and grumbles his "dialog", Donald Pleasance reprises his many roles as the androgenous bad-ass, and a supporting cast of extras resembling Jimmy Carter, Saddam, Bluto, and Mimi keep things moving. One of the many films that makes an inexact science of ballistics -- no one with a gun can manage to even nick another character with a shot, even at point-blank range. Worth seeing, if only to watch in sadistic delight as "Megaweapon" runs over Einstein, the squeaky-voiced, talking motorcycle.

Director David Worth brings us a tried and true post apocalyptic formula film and he comes up with a winner. Our reluctant very low key hero The Rider (Robert Ginty) is compelled into helping rescue the Professor by the Professor's daughter the lovely (Natasia) Persis Khambatta. The Rider rescues the Professor but unfortunately leaves Natasia behind, oh well. The Professor then brings the chosen one along, his rescuer The Rider, to recruit a bunch of nomads who spend their days fighting each other in a circle. The Rider, as the chosen one, must defeat all of the sweaty nomads so they will be compelled to follow their new leader the Professor. I typically find myself fast forwarding through many fight scenes but not this one with girls fighting guys and guys fighting blackbelts, and throw a skinny 12 year old boy who is all heart for the fight, and the requisite little person, wow, you have a highly entertaining fighting sequences reminiscent of a great western bar room brawl. The Professor and the Rider then lead the nomads back to rescue Natasia and overthrow the evil (Prosor), played by the always dependable Donald Pleasence, who rules over a THX 1138 type kingdom.

That's pretty much the simplified plot, but with an Italian flair, The Rider's A. I. motorcycle, great chase and fight scenes combined with a number of explosions that Hal Needham would have been proud of this one really works and may be the best 1980's Italian post apocalypse films which I am sure you will agree is high praise indeed. Don't miss it.

A "Star Wars"-style word scroll informs us that the nuclear war has been fought, leaving the Earth a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but the world we see in the movie isn't very wastelandy at all, what with all the scenic country roads and large office complexes. We meet "The Warrior" (Robert Ginty), a completely average and fairly loathsome guy who crashes his "Supersonic Speed Cycle" into a very obvious and easily avoidable wall. This convinces some fey, robe-clad elderly types that he is some sort of chosen one, so Fred "Hammer" Williamson and Persis "Star Trek" Kambata (with hair) enlist him to help save her Jimmy Carter-like father from the vaguely evil Prossor (enduring fav Donald Pleasance, great as always). What evil things Prossor is up to are unclear, although they involve lots of Nazi-looking guards who turn into dummies when they fall off of buildings. Plus he employs lots of leather-clad S&M dancers who stretch and gyrate all over each other, which doesn't seem very evil at all to me.

Anyhoo, despite his constant whining and lack of any discernible skills, The Warrior succeeds in saving Carter, only to leave Persis behind for no reason other than him being a total jerk. He and Carter go to a fight in the desert that looks like the one from the beginning of "Any Which Way You Can", save for the monkey pooping in squad cars. After fighting a bunch of random characters (ninjas, amazons, truckers, a lumberjack dwarf, a Divine look-a-like) he gets them all to unite to take on Prossor, who employs "Megaweapon" to demolish them. Megaweapon is a giant truck modified to spurt flames out it's front and- that's about it. It's really slow and clunky and easy to avoid, but it does manage to crush Warrior's incredibly annoying bike (which, I failed to mention, talks. In a Valley Girl voice. Ick.). Megaweapon easily out-acts the unintelligible Ginty.

Some other stuff happens and they rescue Persis, following which Mr. Warrior lays a big, wet, long, nauseating kiss on her, rubbing his livery lips and stubbly beard all over her entire face for several excruciating minutes. She seems to enjoy it, even though he's a twit who left her behind to die at Prossor's hands. Oh, and there's a plot twist that fails to make any sense or have any impact on the story, but at least they put forth the effort to have a twist.

I recommend this movie to any one who gets emotionally erect over explosions. There are lots of things blowing up, sometimes in luxurious slow motion. Sometimes we get to see the same explosion from many angles. It's pyro-porno.

It is physically impossible to comprehend the joy I felt in my heart watching MegaWeapon crush that annoying talking motorcycle!

The main character sucked. Everyone but donald Pleasance also sucked. Still, it was worth more than a few laughs.

What do you get when you add Donald Pleasance, a cute girl, Jimmy Carter, and the Paperchase guy? A good movie, right? WRONG! You get an hour and a half of sleep. Although, there is a bright side to the film (surprised?): MegaWeapon!!! If you are a fan of MST3K than you'll love the riffs on this disasterpiece. "Frank, push the button."

I pride myself in my knowledge and appreciation of bad films. Back in the late 1970s, Harry Medved wrote an amazingly funny and brilliant book called "The 50 Worst Movies of All Time" and it kicked off the craze to see and appreciate bad films. I actually found and watched all fifty of the films from the book and then went in search for more awful films and decided to try watching IMDb's infamous Bottom 100 list. Not all of them are available and several have no subtitles or dubbing, so I cannot possibly see them all. However, I've seen a huge number of them and have noticed an annoying trend--nearly all the American films on the list were skewered on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" and MANY really bad films were never on this show--mostly because they couldn't get the royalties for all the films. Plus, other bad films have come out since the show ended. As a result, many absolutely horrid films NEVER appear on the list even though they are much worse than those featured on "MST 3000"...such as "Plan 9 From Outer Space", "They Saved Hitler's Brain", "Robot Monster", "The Room" and ALL of the films of Larry Buchanan, William Grefe and Ted Mikels! Clearly this list is NOT even close to being the 100 worst films...just the lowest rated and apparently the TV show's fans vote!

I say all this because although "Warrior of the Lost World" is a terrible film, I've seen hundreds of films that are worse. But it is bad...really bad. Part of it is because they somehow decided to use Robert Ginty in the lead. I am sure he was a nice guy but he wasn't leading man material and his biggest claims to fame had been supporting parts on the TV shows "Black Sheep Squadron" and "The Paper Chase". Also on hand are Donald Pleasance (who would appear in ANYTHING provided it paid) and Fred Williamson (ditto). As for the film itself, it really looks like it was done with almost no script--just a broad outline and lots of guys running around firing the weirdest sounding machine guns I've ever heard in a movie. And, our hero and his babe escaping again and again from some ill-defined enemy.

The bottom line is that YES this is a bad film with an excruciatingly low budget and little to recommend it. But it's not THAT bad...at least not Bottom 100 bad.

MST3K had a great time riffing this. The movie is very good material, and I think it's a real classic in it's genre(crappy low-budget Nineteen Eightyfour motorcycle Mad-Max ripoffs).

The movie is a great example of "so bad it's good". We have a lot of ridiculous action, which is good, since many movies like these try to have some sort of "story" which just takes time and bores you to insanity. Warrior throws that crap out of the window and concentrates on what's important.

There is a computer, Einstein(credited as "itself"), who wins the "Most annoying computer of all time"-prize without even trying. Seriously, I'd take HAL before this one. There's Ginty, referred to as "Paper Chase Guy", who is the best mumbler ever to play hero, and best of all, there's MEGAWEAPON, a huge truck with flamethrowers and spikes.

This movie is awful. But unlike Mad Max, it doesn't try to take itself seriously. It's good fun and a good MST3K episode. Watch it!

A hilariously bad rip off of Mad Max - dubbed "Sad Max" by Joel Hodgson on MST3K - about a jag-off loner, played by Robert "Paper Chase Guy" Ginty, who gets caught up in a plot by the Outsiders and their Elders to overthrow an evil government tyrant played by Donald Pleasance, who must have needed the money real bad, chosen because he is "pure in spirit" despite being a total prick with very little in the way of honor, courage, nobility, etc, yet somehow able to fly helicopters and shoot straight. In order to save the day, Paper Chase Guy has to recruit a rag tag group of idiots including geeks/Renegade Burger King Window Guys, a few soldiers, a black Nazi, white Ninjas, Amazons, truckers, a dwarf lumber-jack and "the Beige Berets". The late great Star Trek chick Persis Khmbata shows up as eye candy, also presumably because she must have needed the money really bad, and Fred Williamson plays a guy who starts out with the heroes but then turns out to be a villain. Lots of car crashes, people getting beaten up, run over, shot, blown to bits, etc.

More hilarious ineptitude than you can shake a stick at, this was one of the best Mystery Science Theatre 3000 rift fests ever. It should be viewed no other way.

Alright, here's how my experience with this movie went, my brother bought a copy on VHS and we watched it. And I almost died of laughter. Some people would say, "hey, if it's that pitifully funny, why not give it a bad rating?" but the thing is, it was so ungodly entertaining, that I couldn't give it possibly anything less than a nine, and the fact that it has the best theme music ever, coupled with the run time on the box being wrong, and another excellent performance by Donald Pleaeance, it was just too good to be true.

So basically, go find this movie, I haven't seen the MST3k version, but would like to, it doesn't matter, all I know is that the original is a true wonder to behold.

Donald Pleasance seems to think he's a futuristic Blofeld in this movie, but he has only the script-writers to blame. Persis Khambatta seems to have this curse about her, attracting indifferent and miscast leading men (Robert Ginty here, Barry Bostwick in Megaforce, Stephen Collins in Star Trek/Motion Picture). Umm, there's a plot, and it's some kind of attempt to cash in on the Mad Max post-apocalyptic movie crze, but the whole thing is eminently forgettable.

The Paper Chase Guy along with his talking bike with graphics straight outta Pong ride around in the apocalypse and meet the Bald Lady from Star Trek the Motion Picture! A bunch of stuff happens and the two end up saving the Bald Lady from Star Trek the Motion Picture's father, aka Jimmy Carter, from the bad guys dressed like Nazis. Whoops, while they may have saved Jimmy Carter, the Bald Lady from Star Trek the Motion Picture got left behind! Now she's being held captive by the evil Donald Plesence. A bunch of other stuff happens that isn't relevant at all to the plot. In the end The Bald Lady from Star Trek the Motion Picture was saved and she and the Paper Chase Guy KISS in the most disgusting scene you have ever seen in your life!! And that damn bike with the Pong graphics came back to life too.

Ok, so this movie doesn't exactly have the greatest acting, special effects, or even a PLOT ... BUT if has one thing no other movie has! The one and only MEGAWEAPON!! It's worth it to sit through all the horrors of the movie just to see the glorious Megaweapon!!

Megaweapon is this magical being who attempted to destroy the Paper Chase Guy! Megaweapon even SQUISHED the evil bike with Pong graphics ... but recall how I mentioned it came back to life, hmph. Then the Paper Chase Guy had to go and destroy the wondrous Megaweapon! Oh the horror! Never fear, Megaweapon has the power of repairing himself!!! It's part of the magic that IS Megaweapon!!

Watch this movie for no reason other than Megaweapon, and laugh at all the scenes without Megaweapon.

According to this craptastic 80's apocalyptic Sci-Fi fest, the future of mankind is endangered, depressing and – most of all - utterly CHEESY! Personally I don't understand why this film receives such an embarrassingly low rating around here, because it's hugely entertaining, grotesque as hell, never boring and not even that bad; really. Most reviewers around here tend to label "Warrior of the Lost World" as a low-grade and shameless imitation of "Mad Max", but I feel it's more like a crossover between the Mel Gibson classic and more specifically the insanely popular TV-show "Knight Rider", because the heroic lead character has goofy interactions with the board computer on his fancy hi-tech motorcycle. That machine is nearly too insane for words, as it shout out phrases like "Beep Bop A Loola", "Bad Mothers! Bad Mothers!", "Whoopee!", etc… This is also one of them films that start with an exaggeratedly long introduction scrolling over the screen, explaining that the earth's population was nearly extinct after a nuclear war, one tyrant took over all leadership and created the Omega Police Force (similar to the Gestapo, in fact) and outside the perimeters of the Metropolitan city it's a wasteland of different gangs and battles for survival. But there's one man, the chosen one, who will rise and bring an end to Prossor's (Donald Pleasance in yet another demented villainous role) dictatorship. All this is information is provided in the intro, so you almost start to wonder why you should even bother to watch the rest of the film. Robert Ginty, who starred in another early 80's favorite of mine called "The Exterminator", plays The Rider and he's obviously very aware of the script's questionable quality, as he doesn't have the energy to speak one of his lines convincingly. But, the professional actor he is, Ginty reluctantly does what he has to do and that includes fighting a truckload of crazed people (S&M freaks, mutants, midget lumberjacks, geeks), playfully argue with his squeaky board computer, fall in love with the Wiseman's daughter and destroy the tyrant empire. The script is entirely derivative, notwithstanding there's a surprisingly ingenious (at least, according to me) twist near the end that I honestly didn't see coming. There's zero building up tension, but the action sequences are pleasingly OTT, with multiple types of vehicles (and people) exploding to pieces and virulent gang showdowns. It was also nice to see Donald Pleasance's still fits in his Ernest Blofeld outfit! His character is the mirror image of the notorious Bond villain, only without the scar around the eye. This was a very amusing film and it's really too bad most people only remember the MST3K version.

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!

I have seen "Manos Hands of Fate" and "Lazerblast" and just about every MST3K lampooned movie. This is the worst one. The main character (the Paper Chase guy, Ginty) can't act. When he isn't mumbling, he's just wooden and emotionless. The actions of the characters don't make any sense. Seriously, MST3k makes bad movies into funny-bad, but they couldn't save this one. His "supersonic motorcycle" isn't much better than a regular cycle and certainly doesn't go that fast. And the apocalyptic world he lives in looks no different than our world today (trees and grass and all that good stuff). I couldn't even laugh at the badness because it looked like the creators tried to make this one bad.

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.

Directed by David Worth. Starring Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, Donald Pleasence, Harrison Muller, Fred Williamson, Philip Dallas, Laura Nucci. (R)

Unnamed supersonic speedcycle rider (Ginty) wandering the surprisingly lush wasteland in the days after the apocalypse is discovered by a resistance group fighting against the tyrannical Omega Force; and, what luck, the rider also happens to be the Chosen One! Low-budget ripoff of the "Mad Max" pictures (and, in general, the post-apocalyptic actioners that sprung up in their wake) has a couple decent vehicular stunts to go along with plenty more that are not. Our indifferent "hero" knows how to mow down waves of incompetent henchmen with a pew-pew machinegun, and can drive that infuriatingly sassy bike of his like a pro, but he's as blank-faced as a mannequin and mumbles all his lines like he just woke up with a mouthful of peanut butter. The story is such an afterthought that it was reported that the movie poster was drawn up before a script had even been written. Pleasence and Williamson are on hand to class things up with sophisticated and nuanced supporting turns, and if you believe that, you're gonna find the final twists (two of 'em!) truly mind-blowing.

16/100

Good news. I may have found the holy grail of "so bad it's good" movies.

This baby has it all: a few Mad Max inspired vehicles, talking motorcycles that respond with cliches, cars that blow up before impact, pistols to the groin, machine guns that go pew-pew-pew and yet somehow also manage to make ricochet noises, good guys in bright white jumpsuits, spiders that sound like squeaking Styrofoam, cave dwelling mutant zombies, sexy 80s jazz and weird studded leather entertainment at the club utopia, hilariously incompetent bad dudes in black ski goggles who die three at a time, some sort of kung-fu meets roller derby girls meets trailer trash fight in a quarry, a mind-controlling tanning table, Fred Williamson popping in and out of the movie at leisure, car chases along abandoned roads, dummies falling out of towers and helicopters, a conveniently placed pyramid of fuel barrels right where the bad guys get run off the road, and a bored and sort of sleepy evil mastermind portrayed by the predictably average Donald Pleasance.

Warrior of the Lost World was really bad, but it was also just so darn entertaining. Keep your expectations low - I mean *really* low - and you'll enjoy all 90 minutes of it.

I first saw this movie on MST3K, and it was my all time favorite. Even without the wiseass robots this is damn funny. I mean, from the stoner motorcycle, to Donald Pleasance as the blue print for Mike Myer's Dr. Evil character, to Robert Ginty's unbelievably wooden performance....oh man this is a great movie!!!! This and another Fred Williamson feature, Warriors of the Wasteland are the greatest of all the crappy Italian Mad Max knockoffs of the early to Mid 80s!

a very bad movie. this movie is about a wannabe mad max riding around on a motorcycle that talks like KITT on crack, trying to stop lost boys type characters and the omega organization(or whatever its called). pleasence plays the leader of the organization and the lost boys have very futuristic sony walkman headsets that they communicate with. bad special effects, bad acting, bad script. im sure pleasence was embarrassed by by this film, although he gives a good performance. worth a look when youre buzzed and you want a quick laugh.