Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
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Critic Consensus: Beyond Thunderdome deepens the Mad Max character without sacrificing the amazing vehicle choreography and stunts that made the originals memorable.
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as Mad Max
as Aunty Entity
as The Master
as Jedediah Jr.
as Jedediah
as Savannah Nix
as The Collector
as The Blaster
as Ironbar
as Pigkiller
as Blackfinger
as Dr. Dealgood
as Waterseller
as Ton Ton Tattoo
as Little One
as Aunty's Guard
as Aunty's Guard
as Aunty's Guard
as Aunty's Guard
as Aunty's Guard
as Aunty's Guard
as Aunty's Guard
as Aunty's Guard
as Aunty's Guard
as Aunty's Guard
as Mr. Skyfish
as Gekko
as Scrooloose
as Anna Goanna
as Eddie
as Tubba Tintye
as Finn McCoo
as Slake
as The Hunter
as Cusha, the Pregnant Girl
as The Hunter
as The Hunter
as The Hunter
as The Guardian
as The Guardian
as The Guardian
as Mr. Scratch
as The Gatherer
as The Gatherer
as The Gatherer
as Guardian
as The Gatherer
as The Gatherer
as The Gatherer
as The Gatherer
as The Gatherer
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as The Gatherer
as The Gatherer
as Little One
as Little One
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as Guardian
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This middle portion of the picture becomes dangerously preachy, but just before we and Max are bored, director Miller returns Max to his roots, a screaming chase sequence through a desertlike Australian landscape.
Beyond Thunderdome is the third in George Miller's Mad Max series, and it closes the trilogy like a lightning blast followed by the ominous, resonant drone of thunder.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome isn't a bad movie. It has entertaining sections, decent performances and more than a few provocative images. But it also has a major shortcoming: It's too darned sane.
An astonishing display of virtuoso cinema that is destined to take its place among the most vivid and freshly imagined fist-to-groin contests in the medium's history.
Miller never falls back on the formulas that have become the bane of too many recent action films, and his sustained cuts lend a clarity to the proceedings.
Gibson impressively fleshes out Max, Tina Turner is striking in her role as Aunty (as well as contributing two topnotch songs, which open and close the picture) and the juves are uniformly good.
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It fully embraces the extravagant "pox-ecliptic" over-the-topness that had already been injected into Mad Max 2 and made that film so visually unique, thus being more entertaining than the previous movies even if more cerebral and less action-oriented (or perhaps because of that).
Super Reviewer
Often unfairly seen as the weakest of the series, it is actually the most fun. Sure, the action doesn't start until very late (but really delivers then), but the quirky ideas, outrageous production design and world building make this a highlight of the series. It also helps that two great Tina Turner songs frame the film, making it an 80s lovechild in post-apocalyptic clothes.
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Not sure what happened here, but this is not the Mad Max I remember from the first two films. It makes sense though because after doing some research this wasn't originally a Mad Max film, but rather a Lord of Flies film. They changed their mind and had George Miller direct the stunts (which there's barely any compared to the first two films) and had George Ogilvie direct the actors. The first half of the film was fine, but the second half is boring, uneventful, and messy. You can tell there's two different ideas clashing because none of the second half of the film matches anything else in the franchise. I've seen people call this Mad Max for children and that is rather accurate. This just doesn't feel like it belongs with the first two at all. A sad way to end the original Mad Max series before it got rebooted.
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