Mad Max 3 - Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Mel Gibson	'Mad' Max Rockatansky
Bruce Spence	Jedediah the Pilot
Tina Turner	Aunty Entity
Adam Cockburn	Jedediah Jr.
Frank Thring	The Collector
Angelo Rossitto	The Master
Paul Larsson	The Blaster
Angry Anderson	Ironbar
Robert Grubb	Pig Killer
George Spartels	Blackfinger
Helen Buday	Savannah Nix
Rod Zuanic	Scrooloose

Director	George Miller; George Ogilvie
Producer	George Miller
Writer	Terry Hayes; George Miller

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