The "Mad Max" series and Mel Gibson having gained international acclaim, the Australian producers and star could now bring another big name entertainer into the next film. "Beyond Thunder" does that with popular singer and actress Tina Turner. She plays a sort of queen of what would pass as a metropolis in barbarian lands. Bartertown provides a different setting and sci-fi milieu. And, there's a secondary locale where a nearly dead Max has been taken after being found near death in the desert.
Here we have another outpost of sorts, of a collective group of children, the oldest being teenagers. The anomaly here is where are the parents and how did only kids survive for a time to be in this location. Some are just toddlers. Well, sci-fi in the movies has to overlook such anomalies if it is to provide an entertaining film in under several hours - like the usual 90 minutes or so.
Gibson does a good job, as does Turner. And there are some other unique and interesting characters. The Thunderdome is like an ancient Roman circus - a place of gladiatorial combat, only in a more up-to-date, if still barbaric, setting. It's an interesting and good sci-fi film of survival and living after a general apocalypse of society. But it can't rival the second film of the series, "Road Warrior."
Here we have another outpost of sorts, of a collective group of children, the oldest being teenagers. The anomaly here is where are the parents and how did only kids survive for a time to be in this location. Some are just toddlers. Well, sci-fi in the movies has to overlook such anomalies if it is to provide an entertaining film in under several hours - like the usual 90 minutes or so.
Gibson does a good job, as does Turner. And there are some other unique and interesting characters. The Thunderdome is like an ancient Roman circus - a place of gladiatorial combat, only in a more up-to-date, if still barbaric, setting. It's an interesting and good sci-fi film of survival and living after a general apocalypse of society. But it can't rival the second film of the series, "Road Warrior."