![]() Best of all is the enhanced wider color gamut, making the film looks fresher and more rejuvenated. Shadow delineation is just above average, dropping slightly during the Underworld sequences, but remains faithful to the filmmakers' creative intentions, and some of the finer details can still be appreciated. The visuals are further complemented by the improved brightness levels, bathing the subterranean Underworld refinery, the nighttime exteriors of Bartertown and the dark, dank corners of the primitive Planet Erf in rich, true blacks. Specular highlights add a crisp, narrow glow to the puffy clouds in the sky and in the bloom of various light sources while metallic surfaces have a punchy, realistic sheen to them. Nevertheless, the native 4K transfer enjoys a welcomed uptick overall, showing cleaner details and definition while displaying an upgraded contrast balance, allowing for better clarity and visibility of the dusty, grubby shacks of Bartertown. Struck from a brand-new restoration and remaster of the original 35mm camera negatives, the HEVC H.265 encode may not be the sharpest in the lot, falling on the softer side of things for a majority of the runtime, but this is due to the original cinematography and is inherent to the source. The third installment enters the Ultra HD arena and comes out on top, defeating all previous releases and looking the best it ever has at home. NOTE: Per Warner Bros recent statement, any audio issues were only present with the Mad Max: The Road Warrior set. At startup, the disc goes straight to a silent, static menu screen with the new artwork and the usual options along the bottom. The dual-layered UHD66 disc sits comfortably opposite a Region Free, BD50 copy, and both are housed inside the standard black, eco-elite keepcase with a glossy slipcover and new artwork. When redeeming said code, users are granted access to the 4K UHD version in Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio. Warner Home Video brings George Miller's Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome to Ultra HD Blu-ray as a two-disc combo pack with a Digital Copy code. Nevertheless, and despite a rather weak ending, the third outing in the Mad Max adventures is a good and mostly satisfying third chapter. At one point, Miller makes this influence very clear when Max is announced into the Thunderdome arena as "The Man with No Name." Much of the action and plot evolves at a decent pace, but it all comes to an abrupt conclusion that largely leaves fans feeling somewhat empty. Like the first two movies, Beyond Thunderdome comes with a strong western theme, particularly in Max as the archetypal, morally ambiguous anti-hero. The thief it turns out is none other than Bruce Spence, this time playing Jedediah the Pilot. Mel Gibson's Max is caught in the middle of these two planes of existence while traveling through the desert and is robbed of his possessions, which included another modified vehicle pulled by a team of camels. On the other hand, the children with their broken English rely on stories, hearsay and random artifacts to imagine times past, a sense of myth-making born of innocence while inaugurating a future that's hopeful. Here, it is politics as usual with adults old enough to remember a time before the apocalypse, before civilization quite literally went to the pigs. In Bartertown, matriarch leader Aunty Entity (Turner) is in a political dispute with Master (Angelo Rossitto), an engineer who uses his expertise to refine methane gas from pig feces. In this portrait of a future where humans try to regain, in some small measure or another, the social civil order of the past, the filmmakers imply this as paving the road to a new existence. Splitting the directing duties with George Ogilvie, Miller expands the epic scale of his dystopian Australia to include a peculiar settlement called Bartertown and a camp of children living a quasi-pastoral, Eden-like ignorance. But admittedly, and in spite of the plot's loftier goals, romanticized hopes for humanity, Miller's script, which he co-wrote with Terry Hayes, ultimately falls a bit on the hollow side and feels rushed as it tries to encapsulate a larger vision of a post-apocalyptic world at the brink of moral bankruptcy. Over the years, the movie has grown in cult status and is reasonably well-liked by most fans, such as yours truly, mostly deriving from fond memories of seeing it in theaters and Tina Turner dominating the screen. ![]() ![]() Don't get me wrong, there is still a good deal worth enjoying in George Miller's Beyond Thunderdome, and the production as a whole is, for the most part, satisfying and delivers its fair amount of visual spectacle. In the case of the Mad Max series, the third outing is the weakest entry in the franchise and not quite as good as its two predecessors. ![]()
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