Fresh
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.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Hold out for Mad Max. This is his greatest adventure.
1985 · 1h 47m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Directed by
George Miller
,
George Ogilvie
Overview
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
Director and cast
- George Miller Director
- George Ogilvie Director
- Mel Gibson as Mad Max Rockatansky
- Tina Turner as Aunty Entity
- Helen Buday as Savannah Nix
- Bruce Spence as Jedediah the Pilot
- Angelo Rossitto as Master
- Adam Cockburn as Jedediah Jr.
- Frank Thring as The Collector
- Paul Larsson as Blaster
- Angry Anderson as Ironbar
- Robert Grubb Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
The punky energy of the earlier films has given way to a self-conscious striving for significance, obscuring Miller's considerable kinetic talents in favor of a lumpy didacticism.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Enough imagination, wit and ingenuity to put recent Spielberg to shame.
Derek Adams, Time Out
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