[4] After bitter wars and natural disasters, the earth is devastated, depopulated, and chaotic; morality and law no longer exist.
In Texas in 2020, degenerate villains raid a monastery in which pretty Maida took refuge, when five roving Rangers show up.
Five years later, Nexus and Maida live with their little daughter a seemingly safe life in the settlement of Free Town.
In a 1996 interview, D'Amato stated that Eastman "didn't feel confident enough in the action scenes and so I dealt with those, leaving him to the direction of the actors.
[5] Eastman also stated in 1996, that "These (post-atomic) films, which were made in the wake of the various Mad Max movies, were decidedly crummy.
[9] The review commented on the characters as "cardboard" and the dialogue as "often hilarious" noting that "there is some type of action every few minutes in this flick.
The end result is daft but never dull and that duality makes Anno 2020 - I Gladiatori Del Futuro good late-night fodder for fans of trashy b-movies.
"[9] TV Guide referred to the film as "an inept action picture" that was derivative of the "infinitely superior "Mad Max" series" and that "One can go on and on pointing out the innumerable problems of the film or that the director must be morally spent, but the fact will remain that 2020 Texas Gladiators is nothing but more egesta from the Italian exploitation factory.