Stars: Tina Turner, Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Rod Zuanic, Helen Buday

Director: George Miller

Summary: The Road Warrior arrives alone and destitute in Bartertown in the post-holocaust wastelands of Australia, searching for his stolen possessions... A tribe of lost children also wait for a hero in a world battling to survive - they face a woman determined to rule...

In this third installment in the "Mad Max" series, Max battles the crafty ruler of Bartertown, Aunty Entity (Tina Turner). Among many other pop hits, the film features the songs, "We Don't Need Another Hero," and "One of the Living."

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Although Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the third part of George Miller's post-apocalyptic Mad Maxtrilogy, is certainly the least of the bunch (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrioris 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

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menus, Production Notes, Scene Access
Subtitles:	Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Year:	1985
Release Date:	January 25, 1999
Runtime:	102 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 011519
Keywords:	Mad, Beyond, Max, General, Fiction, Science, Horror, Thunderdome, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Science Fiction