Like any other action movie, Mad Max 3 does not disappoint us with its intense action scenes. The movie title includes the phrase: Beyond Thunderdome, which is the name of the fighting arena. The fighters are on elastic bands in a small upside down dome-like arena where they can jump at each other and use weapons such as crossbows and axes. Some of the best fight scenes in the movie occur in this dome.

The Thunderdome is notorious for a quote: “Two man enter, one man leaves.” Max faces one of his strongest opponents here, named Blaster who he is able to beat but refuses to kill. This upsets the leader of Bartertown, Aunty, where the Thunderdome is located, and she casts Max into the desert. Max is found and saved and brought to a community with only children and teenagers, who had crashed there in a plane. Initially, Max does not want to help them leave, but he ends up being a hero, crashing through Aunty’s men and helping the children escape. Max is left to wander the desert, looking for new journeys and adventures to take on.

I had seen the newer Mad Max before this movie and I thought it was interesting how the two are set in Australia, depicting the world as a nuclear wasteland. This movie seemed to have a better plot and richer characters than the newer movie which is mostly just an endless series of action scenes.