25 Awesome Action Heroes

4. MEL GIBSON, THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982)
Who needs a tribute to this postapocalyptic Mel Gibson sequel, when the opening narration does it so well? ''The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice. And in this maelstrom of decay, ordinary men were battered and smashed. Men like Max... In the roar of an engine, he lost everything. And became a shell of a man...a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.''