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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

★ — Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

The third entry in George Miller's post-apocalyptic series arrived a full four years after The Road Warrior (1981), and this time Miller shared directing duties with George Ogilvie, a theatrical director best known for Australian television work, with Ogilvie handling the more character-focused sequences while Miller took the action. The production was complicated by the death of Miller's close collaborator Byron Kennedy in a helicopter crash shortly before filming began, a loss that visibly affected the shape of the project. Shot largely in and around Broken Hill and Coober Pedy in South Australia, the film brought a notably larger budget than its predecessors and a genuine pop star in Tina Turner, whose presence (and contributions to the soundtrack) were clearly designed to push the franchise toward a mainstream American audience, arriving at a moment when Australian genre cinema was riding considerable international goodwill.

Pig shit. It's ridiculous. It might as well have had some puppets thrown in. The first Mad Max movie was a little weird but this was just total and complete shit. The bungee gladiator arena bit alone made us go "what? Why?" Then the Peter Pan kids show up and disney up the whole thing. I don't know how so many people came together and not one said "Hey, maybe we should make this good?" Tina Turner sucks ass.

Rating: ★ | Year: 1985 | Watched: 2025-05-03

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