Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome
Nuclear war has finally destroyed what little was left of civilization. Bartertown is a city on the edge of a desert that has managed to retain some technology. After being exiled from the town, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against its queen.
1969, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
31 January 1950, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
9 June 1975, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1971, Australia
17 September 1945, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
18 February 1908, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
25 April 1954, Australia
May 13, 2015
There is something to get excited about in this third chapter of the Mad Max series: the powerhouse presence of Tina Turner.
May 13, 2015
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.
June 06, 2007
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.
May 13, 2015
The directors, George Miller and George Ogilvie, borrow from every source they can find; movie buffs can pass the time spotting the Lynch shot, the Leone shot, the Jodorowski shot, and all kinds of others.
May 17, 2015
It's hard not to wonder why Beyond Thunderdome isn't better.
May 13, 2015
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.
May 13, 2015
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.
May 13, 2015
Outrageously sinister, unblinkingly violent, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is everything that fans of the futurist road warrior could hope for and more.
May 13, 2015
This infusion of money and production by a major studio gives the film a slightly more polished look, but is inferior to the previous two films in every other way.
June 10, 2008
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.
May 13, 2015
The third in Mel Gibson's sci-fi series is the weakest, but it remains a hugely entertaining futuristic spectacular.
August 25, 2008
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.
