Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome

Name: Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome
Released: 1985-7-10
Cast: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Helen Buday, Bruce Spence, Robert Grubb

PG-13
1h 47m
1985

81%

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Mel Gibson and Tina Turner star in the third film of the Mad Max series.Max stumbles onto a desert city in the post-apocalyptic world that is built on the principle of unbridled, cutthroat capitalism where anything--even a human life--can be bartered. Caught in a power struggle between the city's two rulers, Max breaks the one inviolable rule of a city with no other rules when he refuses to kill.

Director:

George Miller, George Ogilivie

Producer:

George Miller

Writer:

Terry Hayes, George Miller

Cast:

Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Helen Buday, Bruce Spence, Robert Grubb, Angelo Rossitto, Paul Larsson, Frank Thring

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

81%

Critics Consensus: Beyond Thunderdome deepens the Mad Max character without sacrificing the amazing vehicle choreography and stunts that made the originals memorable.

Reviews

Starburst

James Olsen

If Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome doesn't live up to the pace and power of its predecessors, its richer visual style and more substantial storyline and characterizations, are a welcome, if not wholly successful, change in emphasis.

While Miller explores his individual tonal shifts in his three disparate acts, he uses a visual sense and grandiosity that had become the mainstream—a blockbuster method popularized by Spielberg and George Lucas.

…it’s a watchable, big budget lo-fi, sci-fi spectacle, but something of an unnecessary pit-stop in the development of Max Rockatansky, and a boring hero we could all probably do without right now…

The suspense is still effective and the climactic railroad chase at the conclusion handsomely echoes the other outrageous stunts of the trilogy.

September 6, 2020

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We Live Entertainment

Aaron Neuwirth

This is a wild, imaginative action film that truly shows what the power of cinema can accomplish in even the direst of situations.

May 1, 2020

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