As one character puts it, the film is about war and survival. He is then introduced to a camp of desperate people harangued by an evil overlord, a buff, mask-clad, Bane-like villain called Humungus (Kjell Nilsson). Men like Max.”Ī nomad wandering across a landscape perverted by lawlessness and despondency, Max, who in a former life was a police officer, meets a flamboyant bug-eyed misfit Gyro Captain (Bruce Spence). “And in this maelstrom of decay ordinary men were battered and mashed. “The gangs took over the highways, ready to wage war for a tank of juice,” the narrator says. Voiceover narration overlaid on to a black-and-white newsreel sets the scene for Road Warrior, based in a grim future where civilised society has been replaced by a wasteland of people either fighting for fuel or protecting their supply. Hopefully the similarities end there and Mad Max: Fury Road – the belated fourth instalment, slated for release mid-2015 – won't trigger comparisons to the ill-fated Star Wars prequels. Like 1983's Return of the Jedi, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome digressed into derivative exotic settings. Like 1980's The Empire Strikes Back, Road Warrior extended the film's universe in dramatically and technically interesting ways. Like 1977's A New Hope, it started strong with Mad Max.
Structurally the series bears similarities to the original Star Wars movies, which were released in the same period. The Mad Max trilogy concluded with Beyond Thunderdome in 1985, which featured a delirious performance from Tina Turner as an evil queen. The plot isn’t sophisticated but, given the cyclonic energy with which Miller moves images, characters and set pieces, it doesn’t need to be.
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All these years later Road Warrior moves like a bat out of hell and stands alone – like Max lit against a crimson sunset – as a foot-to-pedal road movie without comparison.
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