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This flick is SUCH a "Road Warrior" RIP OFF right down to the car crashing thru' a mobile home camper! George Miller probably should have SUED these film makers,but by looking at the budget for this film...he probably wouldn't have gotten much. I'm not going to bash this film TOO much. For what it's worth,it IS kind of fun. But when the bad guy calls his gang "Mother Grabbers",it turns into comedy GOLD! If you want a no brainer low budget action flick...check it out.

Solid Italian Max Mad ripoff has tons of tricked our car and motorcycle desert chases, along with some pretty good Road Warrior copycat costumes, which is fun, even if the action is nothing compared to George Miller's groundbreaking films. Instead of fuel, the survivors of this post apocalyptic hell are in search of water. Though lacking the massive production values of Kevin Coster's "Waterworld" or even Miller's "The Road Warrior," director Giuliano Carnimeo (billed as Jules Harrison) manages to infuse some decent thrills out of his minuscule budget and the corny script from the same writing team who brought you the equally silly "1990: The Bronx Warriors" and "The New Gladiators" (they also wrote the Lucio Fulci horror classics "Manhattan Baby" "The House by the Cemetary"). However, the film is hampered by lousy acting, a dull story, and terrible dubbing (though that does offer camp value). Also, the film takes a major nosedive in terms of pacing once the main character comes across a community of wastelanders. From there, it's a bunch of boring talk about how they can get more water and nothing much of interest. That is until the final's climactic road battle, which although nothing spectacular and plays out more like a demolition derby than a coherent action sequence is still a step above most low budget warriors of the wasteland films of this ilk. Overall, far from a classic, but solidly enjoyable if you enjoy this sort of disreputable film genre.

Everything you really want from this kind of film (minus nudity possibly). Alien is a hard headed but love-able warrior of the wasteland, who ends up joining a young cyborg in a quest for water to bring back to the boy's peaceful commune. The two are accompanied by Alien's (long time?) frienamie, the beautiful but rugged "Trash" and a lovable retired astronaut. The crew must face a roving car gang, who's leader uses the word "mudder" pretty frequently, as well as doomsday water cultists(?) and the unforgiving desert of the post apocalyptic future. The movie of course takes its cues from (read rips off) Mad Max as well as a few other Sci-Fi classics. There is plenty of possibly unintentional humor, corny action and entertaining 80s schlock. The dub falls out of place a little at times but its watchable all the way through.

In a world of TurboKid and Fury Road, its a little easier to get other people to watch these kind of fun trashy films. Getting them to stick around for most of it is another story. This title has great pacing for a film of its type and would make a great intro in to the genre for that friend who likes some of the Neo-Trash like Turbokid but maybe wouldn't make it through Battletruck or Bronx Warriors.

Comparing this with "Mad Max 2" in terms of quality is akin to a cage match between a donkey and a grizzly bear; the outcome is a foregone conclusion. If however, you were to compare this with "New Barbarians", or "1990 The Bronx Warriors" where technical ratios are more equal, then "Exterminators" isn't a bad yarn.

The premise concerns a post apocalyptic world in which water is scarce, and various territorial tribes emerge to claim what little water there is in isolated wells. Crazy Bull is the main adversary and his vicious sidekick Shadow (Cunningham) packs a claw that commands respect. It's a shame that Cunningham didn't find greater exposure in her film career, as she showed a lot of promise and has a decent cinema legacy.

The visual effects, as expected, are the heroes, including the trailblazing stunt-work in which dune buggies leap and pirouette in the air, while bodies are flung around like rag dolls. There's plenty of gruesome carnage in keeping with the sub-genre. Scripting is minimal, although as most of the story is essentially borrowed, grafted and re-imagined, it's not altogether critical for success. I've seen a few of these post-apocalypse biker pictures, some with more recognisable faces and more sophisticated production values, but "Exterminators" holds its own and so if this is your cup of tea, drink up.

If you rent a movie titled "Exterminators of the year 3000," the odds are good you know what you're getting yourself into. I myself was sold by the promising descriptions of "nuke mutants," "motor-psychos," and of course the "exterminators" themselves which, according to the back of the movie-store case, are all cavorting around a post-apocalyptic barren wasteland wreaking all sorts of mayhem. Let the wacky hijinks and low budget buffoonery ensue--at least, such were my hopes for this "film."

Now I like the occasional terrible movie, and if you're reading the comments on Exterminators of the Year 3000, you probably do too. That being said, I rated this film a solid "1(awful)"--not because I completely hated the film but because it is one of the most legitimately dreadful efforts at movie-making I have ever seen. The dialogue, the acting, the cinematography, the sound-editing, the editing in general, the plot, etc., etc., etc--all are worthy of what must surely be low spectator expectations given that marvelous title.

So what is really "good" about this bad movie? It does have several of what my circle affectionately terms "quality kills." A quality kill, for those few of you unfamiliar with the phrase, isn't a hard and fast term, but in general refers to someone killed in a particularly gruesome, creative, or ridiculous fashion.

Exterminators of the Year 3000 also has a fair supply of "dialogue-so-bad-it-becomes-funny," provided in great part by Crazy Bull, the aptly titled leader of the hapless motor-psycho gang--who incidentally also provide most of the quality kills (if you're hoping for big things from the nuke mutants, think again, they play essentially zero part in the movie...shucks!). Crazy Bull, however, is all you could ask for in a b-movie motor-psycho. Shakespearean paraphrase and oddly PG-style insults are all he knows how to say...and that's terrific.

Despite its quality kills and bad dialogue, however, if you're looking for a truly entertaining bad movie, Exterminators of the Year 3000 does disappoint somewhat in that with its draw limited to things like silly and outdated special effects, quality killing, and bad dialogue, there is simply not enough to justify a full feature length, owing principally to the forty minutes or so in which the audience is forced to follow the characters in protracted and boring car "chases" and long desert hiking sequences...All in all, a pretty good awful movie, but hey, it's no Death Race 2000.

It's the year 3000 -- the Earth's ozone belt has been destroyed by nuclear blasts leaving survivors scouring the scorched landscape for that most precious commodity: H2O. Tough loner Alien (Robert Iannucci) travels this waterless wasteland in a souped-up car called the Exterminator (guzzoline clearly not an issue in this particular future world), the motor kitted out with all manner of gadgetry, including in-car video and bullet-proof armour; this makes him the target of a band of ruthless marauders, led by Crazy Bull (Fernando Bilbao), from whom Alien stole the vehicle, as well as opportunistic post-apocalyptic carjacker Trash (Alicia Moro), who, in the opening sequence, snaffles the Exterminator, leading to a high speed chase that leaves Alien trapped upside down in a wrecked police car.

Rescue comes in the form of ten-year-old Tommy (Luca Venantini), only survivor of an expedition to locate a rumoured underground water supply; he frees Alien from the twisted wreckage and the two from an unlikely alliance. Their journey involves run-ins with Crazy Bull and his gang, a visit to ex-astronaut turned engineer Papillon (Luciano Pigozzi), and encounters with Trash, who ultimately teams up with the guys to find the water.

A prime slice of early'-80s post-apocalyptic cheeze, The Exterminators of the Year 3000 is chock full of stunts, crazy characters, and diabolical dialogue, making it a real hoot for fans of low-budget Mad Max rip-offs. While the action isn't as impressive as the vehicular mayhem in George Miller's classics (what is?), it still looks fairly dangerous and is therefore suitably entertaining, but the film is at its most enjoyable when introducing its more outlandish comic-book elements: the Exterminator's Bond-style gadgetry, Tommy's new and improved bionic arm, Trash's sonic key, the group of mutants who protect their water with Indiana Jones-style booby traps, and the hilarious dialogue ("Into battle, my merry mother-grabbers!", "Unleash the dogs of war", "C'mon you little honey parrot"). I'd definitely liked to have seen director Giuliano Carnimeo push the futuristic angle more (apparently, men have travelled to Mars and Venus, yet Earth-bound transport technology has remained firmly rooted in the 20th century), but I imagine the minimal space-age tech was down to budgetary constraints.

After lots of shooting and explosions, the corny ending sees the heroes' tanker of water accidentally depleted by Crazy Bull's sadistic henchwoman Shadow, and the source of all that H20 destroyed by the mutants, but - as luck would have it - the Earth's damaged atmosphere repairs itself at the same time, leading to a downpour of rain. Cue freeze frame on the ecstatic good guys!

5/10. Anyone expecting the extreme adrenaline rush of the likes of Fury Road will be disappointed, but go into this with the right mindset and a fun time is there to be had.

I was raised on movies like this when i was a kid, i have seen them all and i love Italian rip off.

Its low budget but i loved it same as 2019 after the fall of New York, The Road Warrior, Bronx Warrior, Escape from the Bronx, The new gladiators.

This one had a boy with a bionic arm pretty cool and a modified car.... a bit more then the other post apocalypse movies

Bottom of the barrel, unimaginative, and practically unwatchable remake of THE ROAD WARRIOR. This film follows the exact plot as the Filipino film STRYKER and is worse by far! Bad acting, dialog, effects, dubbing, pacing, action sequences... The list goes on and on. Italy made literally dozens of Road Warrior rip-offs in the early 80's, some good, some bad. This is the worst by far, no contest. Not only was the mood of the film completely bleak and miserable, the experience of sitting through this one is a bore and a half. There was 1 (one) good chase sequence towards the beginning of the movie, and a cool shot of a man holding a hand grenade exploding. But EVERYTHING else about this movie seriously reeks! For actual post-nuke fun, go track down a copy of ENDGAME, AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK, or ESCAPE FROM THE BRONX instead. They're much more enjoyable than this rubbish.

Exterminators of the Year 3000 is the story of a second-rate Mad Max character named Alien. In this Spanish-Italian rip-off of The Road Warrior, Alien travels the wasteland in search of water that he can sell to become rich. Along the way he meets up with a kid and a woman who eventually help him defeat a gang of desert raiders.

There are some great schlock moments to savor here. If you're feeling a bad movie night, I highly recommend this for Mad Max fans and lovers of Italian 80s cinema. Have a few drinks and enjoy this with some friends. There are plenty of laughable moments and opportunities to riff the film for taking itself so seriously. Don't spoil it for yourself if you're interested. It's worth it.

Insanely entertaining post-apocalypse garbage from those always dependable Italians is good for some excitement and *many* laughs. Robert Iannucci, looking like American actor Martin Kove, stars as sleazy lone wolf "Alien", roaming the desert landscapes and making trouble. He makes the acquaintance of the young Tommy (Luca Venantini), who was tagging along with others of his community on the quest to obtain water. You see, in this vision of the future, H2O has become the most precious commodity. What Alien really wants to do is turn a profit, and it remains to be seen if he'll really step up to the heroic plate.

Iannucci is an enjoyably gruff protagonist, and the supporting cast is just tremendous fun. Tommy, who definitely takes his lumps, turns out to have a most amusing secret, leading to some priceless gags. The movie co-stars the beautiful Alicia Moro as Trash, the excellent Luciano Pigozzi as "Papillon", Eduardo Fajardo as the Senator, Beryl Cunningham as Shadow, and the true scene stealer in this gloriously goofy escapist flick, Fernando Bilbao as Crazy Bull. Being made to utter some hysterically dumb lines, and looking like he wandered off the set of "The Road Warrior" to appear in this, he provides great entertainment value. Some viewers may find the sequence in which Tommy gets drunk to be in poor taste.

Production & costume design and music are good, if rather standard, for this sort of thing. This movie is far from being original, but it still manages to show its audience a good time. The action is often genuinely exciting (dig those vehicle stunts!), and there's one hilarious, amazing segment in which Alien and Trash infiltrate the building housing the water source and must contend not only with booby traps (shades of Indiana Jones), but mutated guards wielding flamethrowers.

If you can't get enough of the whole "post nuke" genre, then don't pass this one up. It's a *real* hoot.

Eight out of 10.

Planet Earth : 3000 AD . A thousand ways to die . One way to survive. Into the battlefield of nuclear mutants and vicious bikers come the Exterminators and emerging a new hero : Alien . A group of survivors ruled by the Senator : Eduardo Fajardo , are living at a cave run out of water , then they desperately need new supply . As a brave and thirsty group is formed , their mission : go to encounter the valuable and vital water . 10-year-old little boy: Luca Venantini , joins undercover to the team , but a band of savage motorcycles pursues them . Appearing a new hero , Alien : Robert Iannucci , a Calvin Klein ex-model, as a rebel drifter and subsequently joins a beautiful and two-fisted heroine called Trash : Alicia Moro . Meet the new breed of Road Warriors ! ? They killed to survive...

So-so but acceptable Science Fiction film into of the Post-nuke sub-genre with noisy action, thrills , chills , moving scenes and funcional special effects . This is a futuristic film of survival in which a valiant and tough bunch sets out in search for the precious water to survive . It concerns a desert and barren World with out water , that's why is is very well set in Almería, Andalucía, Spain , in this location was shot in the 60s and 70s lots of Spaguetti/Paella Westerns , including the famous Trilogy of the dollar by Sergio Leone . It packs spectacular chases with skillful stunts and without computer generator effects . From start to finish unstopped action and thrilling scenes are continuous . The film takes parts here and there of other films as "The Road Warrior" by George Miller and his Mad Max saga , "Megaforce" by Hal Nedham , "Death Race" by Paul Bartel and following the wake of Enzo G Castellari films as "1990 Bronx Warriors" , "Escape from the Bronx" , "New Barbarians" . There are familiar faces in the cast as Fernando Bilbao playing the ruthless Crazy Bull who played several Spaguetti Western along with Eduardo Fajardo , Venantino Venantini who is father of the sympathetic boy Luca Venantini and Beryl Cunningham as a nasty black warrior , Anna Orso , Allan Collins considered to be the Italian Peter Lorre as Papillon .

The motion picture made in medium budget was regular but professionally directed by Giuliano Carmineo who often used pseudonym Anthony Ascott . He was a good craftsman who directed movies of all kinds of genres . Being his especiality Spaghetti Western genre , such as : "The moment to kill", "Find a place to die" , "They call him Cemetery" , "They call me Hallaluya", and Sartana movies as " Have a Good Funeral, My Friend Sartana Will Pay" , "Sartana the Gravedigger" , "Light the Fuse Sartana is Coming" .Though he also made other genres as Giallo : "The Case of the Bloody Iris" , "Ana ese particular Placer" , and fantasy as "Computron 22" and Terror : "The Rat Man" , among others.

If you can look past the unoriginality, the plots holes, the bad editing, the terrible English dub and the ridiculous ending that makes no sense, this isn't really a bad movie. There are a few funny moments that make up for the bad stuff. I find it very interesting that the only thing that there is an abundance of in a post-apocalyptic world is gasoline. If you can find this movie, give it a chance.

In Water World, they have too much water and are looking for Dry Land. In this flick, there's too much dry land and not enough water. If there is such a thing called a Road Warrior genre, you would find this film in that section. The screenplay to this film was probably 20 pages long. Most of the film has truck and car chases with explosions and gun fights. A typical post nuclear holocaust sci-fi film with bad actors. this film could have used ten more years of development.

My book report is on the movie Exterminators Of The Year 3000, which is terrible. It was made by people who did not know how to make movies. You can tell by how horrible every part of the movie is that making something good was no one's intention. I asked the movie why it was made this way, it answered back in dubbed Italian something unintelligible. This movie is the equivalent of smearing your own poop on the walls.

Here was something promising. Though there are some quite unique attractions to this science fiction (Italia) thriller, dubbed voices and all. One being of course the futuristic metallic car: the exterminator, but really story wise, it doesn't build up to much, but still it's quite an engaging, watch thanks to it's hero lead, Alien and his 10 year old son, though Alien really doesn't want to admit it. Thought to have deserted his family, including his son, he's hunting down the most precious resource: water, something we take for granted. After the nuclear holocaust, the earth has dried up, literally an expanse of baron land, with only few survivors. Some are unfortunately a merciless gang (aren't they all in these kind of flicks) of savages who thwart Alien's efforts to go after the water. His ten year old boy teams with up with him, to his reluctance. Hope comes in the form of a rebellious woman who knows where the water is stashed: in the well guarded confined of our greedy savages. I know it sounds stereotypical, though don't write this one off. After all, anything dubbed in these Italians cheapies is funny as is the likable kid, when he gets drunk. Some of the traps/contraptions were impressive too, as was the first ten minutes of setting to this flick, when Alien rips a canter of water in meagre supply off of a cop. Definitely something worth viewing, visually, this isn't a bad film, and does have enough action to maintain your interest, although the teaser made it look more action packed. And too it ends on a fine and rainy note. Great effective music score. Great front cover off this Roadshow title too.

Rare is it that you can simply review and entire film with one sentence, but if I don't get the 'Mad Max' rip-off out of my system now I'll be just typing it over and over again. It's a 'Mad Max' rip off.

Set in the distant future where whatever is left of humanity lives in a desert-like wasteland where water is the most valuable commodity. Sound familiar? Well, it doesn't end there. A lone, scruffy road-warrior in a souped-up bruiser of a car is out to protect the innocent and punish the gang of punks who try and rule the wasteland through fear and violence.

It seems that supplies have become so scarce that the lead villain only has enough mascara and eyeliner for one eye. Plus - and I don't know if this is because I watched a 'dubbed' version - but he repeatedly uses the phrase 'M*ther grabber.' I'm guessing this weird 'insult' or a translation replaces a slightly more 'hardcore' phrase. Either way, every time he says it - and he says it a lot - I couldn't help but laugh.

Our (not Max at all) protagonist is a kind of cardboard cut-out, but then so is everyone else. Probably no disrespect to the actors as they try their best, but the script really is pretty basic. There's a kid in it quite a lot. The film wouldn't have lost much if he wasn't in it, but he isn't as annoying as some children can be in these types of films. Plus it's kind of funny when he gets drunk.

Is it terrible? No. It's perfectly watchable. However, if you're looking for a movie like this, then I'm sure you can find one of the 'Mad Max' films lying around. Even the worse is better than this and nowadays we have the remakes. They're better, too.

Of all the crazy futuristic guff featuring in "Exterminators of the Year 3000", there is at least one predicament that is more than likely going to come true - and it'll even be long before the year 3000 - namely that water will become the most scarce and valuable resource on earth. Even around the year 2020-2022 already, drought and lack of rainfall form a worldwide catastrophe, so we should be worried about the what the future will bring.

However, I don't think the makers of this flick had many prophetic ambitions. It's merely just a shameless - but massively entertaining - imitation of "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior". George Miller's cult-monument spawned numerous rip-offs, many of them hailing from Italy, and unwritten rule states: the closer to the plot of the original, the better. That's also one of my life's mottos, by the way, better well-stolen than badly invented.

In a futuristic wasteland - I sincerely doubt it's the year 300, but admittedly it makes the international title sound a lot cooler - the ozone layer has entirely vanished due to all the nuclear warfare. All survivors, whether in little communities or lone warriors, spend their days searching, looting, or killing for small drinking bottles of water. The Max Rockatansky clone on duty is named Alien, and he teams up with a boy with a biomechanical arm to find a mythical source of water. But, of course, there's also a motorized gang of thugs joyriding around. Their leader, Crazy Bull, looks somewhat like a crossbreed between Dennis Hopper in "Waterworld" and Telly Savalas on bad hair(-less) day. He also has a mommy-complex, judging by all the mother-related terms he shouts at his troops.

The ginormous fun-factor of "Exterminators of the Year 3000" comes from the awesome stunt work, the excessive violence, and the type of cheesy dialogues you only ever hear in trashy exploitation movies like these. My favorite part is when elderly mechanic Papillion (brilliant Italian cult-actor Luciano Pigozzi) tells Tommy about his childhood days of dancing in the rain, going to swimming pools, and even taking baths in water! Crazy times...

Yep, this is it. The worst movie I've seen, and I've seen some awful movies (like the entire Deathstalker series). Whereas other bad movies at least give you something to laugh at via bad acting or sorry effects, this movie has nothing even laugh worthy. be prepared to sit and stare through ever-heavier eyelids that lull you toward sleep as you watch the saga of some dude with a perm wearing a headband. I would recommend that marvel of cinematic storytelling, "The Screaming Skull" before I would subject an innocent soul to the boredom of this movie. Steer clear, unless you're a masochist, in which case you might fall asleep before enduring any pain.

In the wave of the successful Mad Max the Italian filmmakers seized the opportunity to raise money in this profitable post-apocalypse Sci-Fi's spin-off, although don't expect too much of this low profile offering, it starts usually on desert area on those car chase thru the winding roads, it takes place in far-off future in year 3.000 (however the cars are from of the eighties) where an atomic war destroyed the whole world and no more rains aftermaths, now the most precious commodity is the scarce water.

In this uninspiring plot came up those punk-gangs ridding several customized cars, pick ups and motorcycles, our hero self-called Alien (Robert Jannucci) aids a little boy Tommy (Luca Venantini) to find out a required water for their thirsty people, also appearing late the gorgeous Trash (Alicia Moro) supported by a former astronaut Papillon played by the veteran Luciano Pigozzi which the best character on the entire picture.

Sorry for the writer that postponed a needed female appearance just in the middle of the narrative, what a mistake, undermining the offering, worst when Trash finally shows up the inept costumer designer dressed her unattractive way, on well-behavior outfits, what a lack of creativeness, aside those mismatches it wasn't disappoint the enthusiasts of the genre.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 5.5.