Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) **1/2

As a non-Mad Max film, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) is good, very Spielbergian, and contains many homages to Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) (Maurice Jarre even did the score), but after the first 45 minutes—when the Peter Pan children get introduced—the film goes downhill and never recovers, even when it tries to throw in a Max-style chase with cool-looking vehicles at the end. George Miller should have kept this one as a non-Max film, as originally planned.

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