Vic is endlessly horny and when blood says he can smell a woman near the makeshift porn theatre they visit they set out to find her.
No good will come of this.
CW: misogyny abounds and sexual assault and rape are what people do here
There's been discourse about this recently so I thought I'd watch it.
It is very clearly enormously influential but also casually nasty as fuck, being essentially a bawdy 70s sex comedy where women are hunted to rape for half the movie. That's the Mad Max bit.
Then the action moves underground where you get the semi-role-reversal Fallout bit, which is also maybe a bit Zardoz.
It's more highly weird than unpleasant with a quite shocking ending. Yes more shocking than the setup.
Like other genre-creating movies of the 70s it's not like the movies that would follow: these would go on to establish genre conventions but this is the mutant that spawned them and it doesn't stick to the rules as they didn't exist yet. In this regard it's a bit like "The Sword and the Sorcerer" which was also a weird thing of its own.
3/10 not recommended unless you want to see a genre being born messily, in which case it's essential viewing.