Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

1985

PG-13

1h 47m

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6.2/10

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Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.

Directors

George Miller

George Ogilvie

Writers

George Miller(screenplay by)

Terry Hayes(screenplay by)

Stars

Mel Gibson

Tina Turner

Helen Buday

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Top cast

Max Rockatansky

Aunty Entity

Savannah Nix

Jedediah the Pilot

Master

Jedediah Jr.

The Collector

Blaster

Ironbar

Pig Killer

Blackfinger

Dr. Dealgood

Waterseller

Ton Ton Tattoo

Aunty's Guard

Aunty's Guard

Guardian

Slake

Directors

George Miller

George Ogilvie

Writers

George Miller(screenplay by)

Terry Hayes(screenplay by)

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The wandering "Max" (Mel Gibson) finds himself in the brutal "Bartertown" ruled either by "Aunty Entity" (Tina Turner) or "Master" (Angelo Rossitto) depending on whether or not you needed electricity! The former, and her devious cohort "The Collector" (the always reliable Frank Thring) concoct a plan by which they can use the ingenuity of "Max" to sort out this power struggle once and for all. That goes to plan, to a certain extent, but when that sense of decency still within our hero causes him to defy his new boss, he is consigned to the "gulag" whereupon he alights upon some youngsters who believe him a god capable of flying them to safety. When he tries to point out that they have the wrong man, dissent amongst these children leads him, and them, back for a final confrontation with the "Aunty". Tina Turner was very much at the top of her musical renaissance when this was made, and had she featured a little more then perhaps we could have better developed the sense of menace here. As it is, she doesn't and once we end up in feral kindergarten territory, the story just becomes predicable and really rather dull. "We Don't Need Another Hero" tops it all off well, but much of the rest of this is pretty unremarkable and may well sound the death knell for this now well spent anti-hero.

Geronimo196724 Jun, 2022