Warrior of the Lost World

Plot synopsis:
The Rider arrives on his advanced motorcycle with its artificial intelligence computer Einstein. He crashes but manages to pass through the "wall of illusion" and is found and brought back to health by the Enlightened Elders. They have chosen him to lead their fight against the evil Omega, an Orwellian state run by the evil Prossor. The Elders are allied with the resistance movement, the Outsiders. The Rider first helps Nastasia and the other Outsiders by rescuing McWayne, Nastasia's father and leader of the Outsiders. While the Rider and McWayne successfully escape, Nastasia is captured and subjected to brainwashing by Prossor.
The Rider gains acceptance from various Marginals (amazons, martial artists, truckers, punks, soldiers, Omega defectors) by winning in the ritual brawl which determines who is the strongest. The Rider and the Outsiders launch their final attack on Prossor's regime, but are intercepted by the Omegas and a giant armored truck, called Megaweapon. As the rebels destroy the Omega patrols with their cars (Ford Taunus TCs), helicopters and tankers, the Rider manages to destroy the Megaweapon by short circuiting it, but not before his speedcycle is crushed under the truck's wheels. The Rider and McWayne storm Prossor's headquarters where they face the dictator and a brainwashed Nastasia. She wounds the Rider, but when ordered to kill her father, she rebels, turning on Prossor and shooting him instead. The Omega has been overthrown, and the Outsiders and Marginals celebrate, as the Rider prepares to move on with his repaired speedcycle.
In a twist, it is revealed that the man Nastasia shot was actually a cyborg clone and the real Prossor is still alive. He flies away with an unnamed traitor of the New Way (Fred Williamson), plotting revenge against the "animals" that defeated him.

Tags: good versus evil, violence, tragedy, plot twist

Review:
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.
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).
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.
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 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.
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..
It is physically impossible to comprehend the joy I felt in my heart watching MegaWeapon crush that annoying talking motorcycle!The main character sucked.
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.
Worth seeing, if only to watch in sadistic delight as "Megaweapon" runs over Einstein, the squeaky-voiced, talking motorcycle..
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!.
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.
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 ...
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kind of an Italian take on the Mad Max films, but not very good.
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.
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!
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.
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..
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.
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.
This was a very amusing film and it's really too bad most people only remember the MST3K version..
The main character (the Paper Chase guy, Ginty) can't act.
Seriously, MST3k makes bad movies into funny-bad, but they couldn't save this one.
Despite what others might have said, "Warrior of the Lost World" is a great movie, albeit not in a traditional sense.
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.
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.
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.
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 didn't, right?The MST3K guys sum this movie up nicely.
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).
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..
A nomad mercenary (Robert Ginty) on a high-tech motorcycle helps bring about the downfall of the evil Orwellian government, the Omega.It seems popular to give this film a 1 or 2, and I can certainly understand why.
Though it does not respect the initial promises - the landscapes and overall atmosphere are pretty good and live to be post-apocalyptic - it has it very high points: some good fighting scenes, a great soundtrack, very nice sound effects (though not used very well, like in the firing guns) and nice landscapes.
And obviously the great, awesome Megaweapon!!!!Though this movie is not an epic masterpiece, it has its good points and therefore demands to be watched, since it still remains a very nice Italian Sci-Fi movie.
Warrior stars Robert Ginty as The Rider, and Persis Khambatta as Nastasia.
She is very beautiful, it's really unfortunate this was about the best level of movie productions she was a part of.Warrior is a dystopian tale of a future that has roots from many stories.
While the movie bears very little resemblance to great films like 1984, there are parts of the story that are similar.
As well you'll see elements of Mad Max series as well.The movie starts with the The Rider being chased by the suppressive government, the Omega.
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.
It's like Mad Max except not very good.....
The Lost World (a.k.a. nice drive into the countryside via mountain highway) includes Paper Chase guy, would be hero *YEAH RIGHT* who really needs a lozenge for that bad throat problem....oh, that was his voice.
You get no background about the `warrior' except our incompetent lead has a computer on his bike which is the forerunner for `most annoying robotic voice in a film' EVER.He's being chased by the omega (the `end', get it??) squads, there's a lot of crappy chase scenes, no one's sure who's who and what's going on and I don't care either.
Thank god for MST3K otherwise I might never have seen this "gem." Bad special effects, an annoying onboard (onbike?) computer, and Robert Ginty (aka the Paperchase guy) make this a bad movie lovers delight.
with hair, and everyone's favorite Donald Pleasance as -- count 'em -- TWO bad guys (well, they're clones, so I guess that's just one).
Oh, and it's got a TREMENDOUSLY ANNOYING 'JIVE' TALKING MOTORCYCLE, which fortunately (spoiler - but I hope no one actually wants to maintain an element of surprise with this movie's plot) gets crushed under the MEGAwheels of MEGAWEAPON!!!
This is truly a great example of a good bad film.
Robert Ginty (the 'Paper Chase' guy) is completely out of his depth here, but he's actually a very good actor in the right parts.
And the movie has Persis Khambatta, and Fred Williamson and Donald Pleasance, for God's sake.
So what we get here is a kind of visual shorthand where our imaginations and good feelings about "Max Max" are meant to fill in the gaps: the talking motorcycle stands in for Max's Interceptor, the assault truck stands in for the tanker truck from "The Road Warrior", Robert Ginty stands in for Mel Gibson, and Megaweapon and Donald Pleasance and a parking garage are supposed to make up for the violent crazies and nomads and apocalyptic landscapes that menace the good guys.It doesn't work, of course.
And whoever thought of that 'Speak-and-Spell' motorcycle should never be allowed to work in movies again, because listening to it is making me bleed from the ears." Joel and the Bots covered this for MST3K, and their version is pretty funny.
This is supposed to be the post apocalyptic world of the future, and instead it looks like a lovely vacation place.
It's run by Donald Pleasance, a staple of awful 80's films in which he plays a totally inept villain(I.e., Puma Man).
Some good, some bad, but Warrior of the Lost World is easily one of the worst of the bunch.
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.
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.
Immediately after the lone Warrior rides his motorcycle into focus, we're subjected to 90 minutes of some pretty wooden acting on the part of Robert Ginty.
The best way to enjoy this film is with the MST3K guys.
Better still, Ginty comes equipped with a funky motorcycle that even has a wisecracking talking computer that's just like the car in "Knight Rider;" this supremely annoying comic relief character speaks in an irritating high-pitched squeaky voice and says such choice crummy lines as "bad mothers," "whoopee," "bite this," and "giddy up." Other sidesplitting highlights include a cave full of grotesquely disfigured mutants, a draggy S&M nightclub act, and Ginty vigorously mixing it up with a bunch of rowdy brutes.
Why were the fight scenes half of the films running time?
Why did guns just not work for the omegaNazi's's?Questions that will keep me awake tonight.If you took mad max, the exact character of Dr No from You Only Live Twice, Kitt from Knight rider as an annoying Japanese motorbike and put them all in a blender you get something like the plot of this film.
Well, first of all I am a sucker for cheesy low budget stuff(Doesn't mean I don't like higher budgeted films with better acting), and second of all I probably like it because it feels like a Troma flick and because I had seen some Troma movies before seeing this.!!!POSSIBLE SPOILER OR 2!!!A warrior on a motorcycle is asked to rescue a man who has an idea how to bring peace to the world.
It was rightfully skewered on MST3K for these unbelievable scenes, bad acting and the horrific motorcycle that the warrior rides.