Two men enter. One man leaves. That’s the law in Bartertown’s Thunderdome arena. But lawmaker Aunty Entity will soon add another: Don’t get Max mad! Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome stars Mel Gibson (Lethal Weapon, Maverick) for his third go-round as the titular hero who takes on the barbarians of the post-nuclear future — and this time becomes the saviour of a tribe of lost children. Music superstar Tina Turner steals what’s left of the screen as Aunty Entity, a power-mad dominatrix determined to use Max to tighten her stranglehold on Bartertown. Directors George Miller and George Ogilvie deliver another rousing final apocalypse on-wheels and one of the best movie fight scenes ever, as Max and the gladiatorial Blaster face off with maces, chainsaws and anything not nailed down inside Thunderdome. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome : watch and you’ll agree with the soundtrack song that “We Don’t Need Another Hero.”

In the annals of action movies few can compare with Mad Max The Road Warrior, a full-throttle epic of speed and carnage that rockets you into a dreamlike landscape where the postnuclear future meets the mythological past. More simply, it’s also one of the most mind-blowing stunt movies ever made. Max is the heroic loner who drives the roads of outback Australia in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defenders of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by The Humungus, notorious for never taking prisoners when they can pulverise them instead. When the battle is joined, the results are savage, spectacular and “a smashing good time at the movies” (Sheila Benson, Los Angeles Times).