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The other Mad Max movies get better with repeated viewings but this one gets worse. I liked it when I revisited it a few years ago, for the first time in forever, but coming back to it again now, it’s a stinker. You can tell there’s a core with Miller’s genius in there, but what’s wrapped around it feels less than inspired. The first half has a surprisingly episodic quality, almost as if we were watching a Mad Max TV show where the titular character wanders from town to town, encountering a string of villains-of-the-week. Then it turns into a terrible Spielberg movie, with annoying kids, an endlessly irritating, sub-John Williams score, and not a lot of plot smarts. Despite all that, it’s kind of amazing how the concept of “thunderdome” has really stuck around in popular culture, so that says something, at least.
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