Amazon.com video review:
Although Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the third part of
George Miller's post-apocalyptic Mad Max trilogy, is certainly
the least of the bunch (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is the
undisputed masterpiece, and maybe the best action movie ever made), it
has still got a good share of imaginative
industrial-wasteland-pastiche imagery. And casting Tina Turner as
Aunty Entity, the queen of Bartertown, was a masterstroke. Mel
Gibson's character Max is pitted in a battle to the death against the
bizarre Master Blaster in the Thunderdome, flying around on rubbery
straps inside a sort of gigantic overturned colander with bloodthirsty
spectators clinging to the outside. Miller's producing partner, Byron
Kennedy, was killed in a helicopter crash while scouting locations for
this film. Miller was devastated, only agreeing to direct the action
sequences--and, somehow, you feel his heart wasn't entirely in
it. --Jim Emerson
Amazon.com video review:
Although Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the third part of
George Miller's post-apocalyptic Mad Max trilogy, is certainly
the least of the bunch (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is the
undisputed masterpiece, and maybe the best action movie ever made), it
has still got a good share of imaginative
industrial-wasteland-pastiche imagery. And casting Tina Turner as
Aunty Entity, the queen of Bartertown, was a masterstroke. Mel
Gibson's character Max is pitted in a battle to the death against the
bizarre Master Blaster in the Thunderdome, flying around on rubbery
straps inside a sort of gigantic overturned colander with bloodthirsty
spectators clinging to the outside. Miller's producing partner, Byron
Kennedy, was killed in a helicopter crash while scouting locations for
this film. Miller was devastated, only agreeing to direct the action
sequences--and, somehow, you feel his heart wasn't entirely in
it. --Jim Emerson
