Rating: PG13
Genre:
Action
Release Date: 06/30/2009
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD2/DD5.1
Run Time: 107 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Not For Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
About 15 years after the events of
Mad Max 2, nuclear war has finally destroyed what little was left of civilization. Grizzled and older, former cop
Max (
Mel Gibson) roams the Australian desert in a camel-drawn vehicle -- until father-and-son thieves
Jebediah Sr. (
Bruce Spence) and
Jr. (
Adam Cockburn) use their jury-rigged airplane to steal his possessions and means of transportation.
Max soon winds up in Bartertown, a cesspool of post-apocalyptic capitalism powered by methane-rich pig manure and overseen by two competing overlords,
Aunty Entity (
Tina Turner) and
Master (
Angelo Rossitto), a crafty midget who rides around on the back of his hulking underling,
Blaster (
Paul Larsson). Seeking to re-equip himself,
Max strikes a deal with the haughty
Aunty to kill
Blaster in ritualized combat inside Thunderdome, a giant jungle gym where Bartertown's conflicts are played out in a postmodern update of blood and circuses. Although
Max manages to fell the mighty
Blaster, he refuses to kill him after realizing the brute is actually a retarded boy.
Aunty's henchmen murder
Blaster nonetheless, then punish
Max for violating the law that "Two men enter, one man leaves." Lashed to the back of a hapless pack animal and sent out into a sandstorm, a near-death
Max is rescued by a band of tribal children and teens. The descendants of the victims of an airplane crash, the kids inhabit a lush valley and wait for the day when
Captain Walker, the plane's pilot, will return to lead them back to civilization. Some of the children, refusing to believe that
Max isn't
Walker and that the glorious cities of their mythology no longer exist, set off in search of civilization on their own.
Max and three tribe members must then rescue their friends from Bordertown and the clutches of
Aunty Entity -- a quest that ends in a lengthy desert chase sequence that echoes the first two
Mad Max films.
Spence also appeared in
Mad Max 2 in a different role, that of the Gyro Captain.
~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
;)
