This, to me, is the
low point of the Mad Max series
and the only one with a PG-13 rating. With all the cruelty, action, and inhuman
behavior stripped out, Thunderdome felt like a movie that should’ve been left
on the shelf for the future—when a better story would be available.
The movie does have a
great action sequence in the Thunderdome fight scene, where Max takes on
Blaster. The venue is set up like a circus, with tools for destruction
scattered everywhere in the dome.
Mad Max 3: Thunderdome
was released in 1985 as a post-apocalyptic film. It was directed by George
Miller, who also directed the first two movies in the series.
The plot has our
protagonist, Max, traveling through the wasteland after a nuclear war has wiped
out civilization. He gets robbed and loses all his belongings in the desert. He
follows the robbers to Bartertown, a city on the edge of the desert that has managed
to retain some technology.
There, he gets caught
in a power struggle between Aunty (Tina Turner), who runs the town, and Master,
the brains behind it.
When Max refuses to
kill Master’s henchman, Blaster, as part of a deal he made with Aunty, he’s
exiled into the desert. He’s later rescued by a group of children who believe
he’s the man they’ve been waiting for—someone to take them back to
civilization.
When Max tells them
there is no civilization left, some of the children go off to find it anyway.
Max now has to save them from the clutches of Bartertown.
Just like its
predecessors, Thunderdome includes a chase sequence, but this one is a bore
compared to the one in Mad Max 2: The
Road Warrior. Also, Bruce Spence, who played the Gyro Captain in Mad Max 2: The
Road Warrior, shows up again—this time as Jedediah, a different
character who robs Max at the start of the film. Don’t be confused; both use
flying machines.
The children in the
movie were more annoying than they were probably meant to be. I didn’t feel sad
for them. They were just annoying, and the way they dressed reminded me of the
Lost Boys from Peter Pan.
What I liked most was
seeing Tina Turner in this for the first time. Her song, “We Don’t Need Another
Hero,” was one of the movie’s soundtracks.
There’s going to be a Mad Max 4, but sadly, the baton has been passed to Tom Hardy (he played Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and was also in Lawless). George Miller will still be directing, and this new Mad Max has a budget five times more than the combined budget of the first three films.
Well, Thunderdome is something to watch when all other movie options have been exhausted.
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