2020 Texas Gladiators

An inept action picture photographed in Italy that borrows heavily from the infinitely superior "Mad Max" series. The location is Texas in the year 2020. The post-nuclear-holocaust world is a dusty wasteland overrun by nasty, well-armed motorcyclists and their sadomasochistic, scantily clad women. The film opens with a depraved scene in which a grimy, drunken bunch of outlaws pillage a mission, rape the nuns (who then slit their throats with pieces of glass), and crucify a priest. The heroes are a wandering group of mercenaries called "rangers" who fight for honor and morality, following the noble lead of Cliver. After an orgy of blood blisters and bone snapping, t...