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Beyond Thunderdome didn’t know if it wanted to be a dystopian Western in the vein of The Road Warrior, a glorified chase movie like the first Mad Max or something altogether more ambitious. Great ideas like Barter Town, Thunderdome and a plane-worshipping cult were wasted in an unfocused script that tried to divide its attention equally between all three ideas.
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It admittedly did a great job of fleshing out the series’ initially ad hoc post-apocalyptic premise into something of collective wasteland, but the praise simply has to stop there. Simply put, just how good is the latest installment of this dystopian Australian action series?Ĥ) Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome – While I appreciate what Beyond Thunderdome was trying to do, it simply didn’t work in the way that it was trying to. The fact that it’s awesome is pretty much a foregone conclusion by this point, begging the question of how well it stacks up against the other movies of its franchise? Is Fury Road as good as the perennial favorite The Road Warrior, or does is settle somewhere around Beyond Thunderdome. And, after seeing it, I can do no less than wholeheartedly recommend it to everybody with two hours and ten dollars to spare. Over the past few weeks, I’ve anxiously awaited the release of the first new Mad Max movie in thirty years.