ULTRA WARRIOR is a mess. I imagine the director, or whoever organized it, probably sold the project to Roger Corman on the strength of how cheap it would be due to all the old footage from other Corman films he could use.
Ironically, though the VHS art makes protagonist Rudolf Kenner l(Dack Rambo) look like Conan, he's really a corporate stooge working for a future-corporation following a nuclear catastrophe. He's sent to a small town named Oblivion to secure mineral rights to the town's wealth of "zirconium," which is somehow of use in fighting a space-war (which has nothing to do with the main plot). However, the grotty human bosses of the town so oppress the mutant underclass that Kenner ends up helping them rebel against the humans.
WARRIOR's only distinction is that though it's clearly following the example of MAD MAX, its hero seems modeled more on the heroes of naturalistic western-films.
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