(Spoilers)
This movie starts with Max going across the desert
in his camel drawn truck/wagon when he’s knock over by Jedediah and his son in
a plane. They steal his stuff and go
off, with Max’s monkey throwing a few supplies out for him.
Max follows them to Bartertown. His quickness with a gun leads to a meeting
with Aunty who started Bartertown. She
hires Max to kill a guy, without it being known that Aunty ordered it. In exchange, he’ll get all his stuff back.
The man they need killed is Blaster. He is a big guy with a metal hood. He carries Master – a smart, little person –
on his back. Together, Master Blaster run
the pig farm/methane plant that powers Bartertown. Max works in the factory to get a closer look
at Blaster, and discovers he doesn’t like loud noises, like whistles.
The way he has to kill Blaster is in the
Thunderdome. This is a metal cage where
“Two men enter; one man leaves.” They fight, and Max – with his whistle –
finally gets the upper hand. He knocks
off Blaster’s hood revealing a mentally disabled boy. Max tells Aunty that wasn’t part of the
deal. Her goons kill Blaster, and then
since Max went back on a deal – one of the laws of Bartertown – he spins the
wheel of punishment. He gets “Gulag,”
which means he’s tied to a horse and sent off into the desert.
The horse eventually dies and falls into a sand
sinkhole. Max probably would have died
if a guy he met at the factory didn’t send his monkey out with a
waterskin.
Max walks further into the desert and passes
out. He’s found by Savannah, who takes
him back to her village in a canyon oasis.
When he wakes up, he is told the story of how they got there. During the nuclear war, a plane crashed in
the desert and the survivors found the oasis and decided to stay. But after a few years, the adults left their
kids to go find civilization, saying someone would be back. They think Max is the promised return of
Captain Walker. He tells them he
isn’t. Some believe him, but others –
led by Savannah – think it’s all a test so they go out to find civilization.
The other kids ask Max to bring them back. He and a few others set out and rescue some
of the kids from one of these sand sinkholes.
They then realize that they are near Bartertown. So they sneak into the factory to grab
Master, because he’s smart enough to help them rebuild society. Max and the kids take out Aunty’s guards who
are holding him, and make a break for it in this truck train that runs on this
old railway track.
Aunty gets all her dune buggies to go chasing
after them to get Master back, because he’s the only one that can fix the
factory and keep the lights on in Bartertown.
The truck train has to eventually stop because Jedediah’s
son has blocked the track as a holdup.
But he runs away when he sees Aunty’s troops. Max and gang follow him into Jedediah’s
underground bunker. They all get on the
plane to fly away, but they need room to take off. So Max gets in a car and plays chicken with
Aunty’s troops. Everyone else flies off,
but Max is left for Aunty, who laughs and leaves him.
Jedediah flies the kids to the ruins of Sydney, where
they start to rebuild. And they leave
lights on to guide wanderers – like Max – to them.
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Unlike the other movies I’ve reviewed for my Movie
Mondays, I’ve actually seen this one before.
It was probably twenty years ago, at least, since I saw it last, but
there were a few things I remembered such as Master Blaster and that there were
a bunch of kids.
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