![]() I was also delighted by the casting of veteran dwarf actor Angelo Rossitto who bags something of a swan song performance late on in his career. I found Tina Turner to be pretty insipid as the would-be villainess, although I was happy to see Bruce Spence returning as the helicopter pilot, albeit he plays a different character this time around. There's no sense of his desperation or his primal nature here, he's just a stock hero character. Gibson's character is underwritten in this one, so that he barely speaks and seems like a void at the centre of the film. They actually reminded me of the Ewoks in RETURN OF THE JEDI. The colony of feral children are mostly irritating, with too many attempts to make them 'cute'. The action scenes, of which there are only really two – the 'gladiator combat' scene in the Thunderdome, and the final chase – are exquisite, as good as that which has come before, and very entertaining. Much of the blame must lie on the troubled production: the producer died causing George Miller to back out and only direct the action sequences while another hand took over the character and dialogue moments. ![]() It seems like a tired repeat of the last movie, with an unwelcome American presence in the likes of Tina Turner and more Hollywood ideals. The heart and soul of the story is missing from this one. I didn't get that, but this is definitely the weakest MAD MAX film of the series. When I saw MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME was showing on TV again, I decided to bite the bullet and sit down and watch it, fearing the worst. And the presence of Tina Turner seemed a definite distraction. I wasn't impressed by the scenes I saw: it seemed cheesier and sillier than what had come before, more child friendly. For some reason, I'd never got around to watching this, the third in the series, although I had seen snippets of it on TV. ![]() In fact, MAD MAX 2 is one of my favourite films ever, finishing with that massive, sprawling chase sequence that's still inspiring filmmakers today (Neil Marshall's DOOMSDAY, anyone?). ![]() They're the epitome of Australian cult filmmaking on a budget: filled with uniquely Aussie humour, outlandish characters and plenty of action. Joe begins collecting healthy and fertile women in the hopes of producing a viable son.Now I do enjoy the MAD MAX films. He has two sons, one huge and muscular but dull-witted, and the other intelligent but tiny and weak. All Joe needs is heirs, but the ruination of the world makes that difficult. The fat man takes over a nearby oil refinery and becomes known as the People-Eater, ruler of Gas Town. Kalashnikov becomes the Bullet Farmer, remaking a lead mine into an arms plant for Immortan Joe's army. Joe becomes the absolute ruler of the stone towers and their aquifer, which becomes known as The Citadel. After everyone has given up and believes him dead, Joe emerges victorious over the place's defenders, thus gaining his reputation as immortal. Aided by his right-hand man, Major Kalashnikov, and an unnamed "fat man," Joe invades a well-guarded tower of rock which sits over a huge natural aquifer. As told in the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel comic by George Miller, Nico Lathouris, and Mark Sexton, Immortan Joe was once a military veteran named Colonel Joe Moore, who became the leader of a gang of raiders after the collapse of civilization. The settlers got all their gasoline out on their bus! After a wreck kills both Wez and Humungus, it turns out that the tanker was full of sand. Left unguarded, the other settlers are free to escape to the North, unpursued. When the tanker is attached, Max drives it out himself, with Humungus and the Marauders in pursuit. With the help of the Gyro Captain, Max returns with a semi truck. When Humungus offers to let the peaceful settlers go if they give him all of their fuel, Max makes them a better deal: He'll procure a truck that can haul their oil tanker if they'll refuel his car and let him go on his way. However, Max befriends the unsocialized Feral Kid (Emil Minty) and soon wins over more of the local population. Max soon gains entry to the compound, but the leader Papagallo (Mike Preston) wants nothing to do with him. The Gyro Captain leads Max to the aforementioned oil refinery compound, which is under siege by the Marauders, the much larger gang that Wez belongs to, which is led by the masked Humungus (Kjell Nilsson).
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