Thunderdome is the odd one out for sure, and it's probably my least favourite of the four but I still enjoyed it. Definitely a bit silly at times, but I honestly found that endearing.

Thunderdome is difficult for me to rank. The scenes in the city with the thunderdome is some of the best in the series. But later scenes are some of the worst in the series.
I like it for the good parts, it was not time wasted to watch it.

Thunderdome has great characters, something that isn't generally strength of the series.
The way I see it, 3 has story/dialogue, FR has action, 2 has both and first valiantly tried to have both.

I was a bit underwhelmed with Thunderdome back in 80s. Later when I rewatched it, I actually really liked it for its grey morality characters and worldbuilding. Unfortunately, chase felt like a weak rehash of Road Warrior.

At the end of the day, Mad Max fans got Fury Road and Furiosa, I guess they should just be happy with that. This was never a huge franchise to begin with and it's rooted in the completely outdated "chase movie" sub-genre niche of the 1970s/1980s. It's not exactly something that screams "big box office". I still think Furiosa was kind of pointless as a movie as we know enough about Furiosa from Fury Road that it didn't justify a 2 1/2 hour movie on its own, but whatever I guess. It's a well made film, I'll give it that, I just don't see the point in investing so much into this particular story. 

Watched the movieclips of the film on youtube. Great film but would have not gone to see it in theatres.m

Finally got around to seeing this now it's out on Netflix.

It's a good movie, and I did enjoy it overall, but it's definitely the weakest of the series in my opinion.

First the good; it's a visually beautiful film, and George Miller's vision of a post-apocalyptic Australia remains as captivating and unique as ever. The action scenes are well staged and choreographed, though they don't quite have the same ruthless energy as Fury Road.

Anya Taylor-Joyce surprised me in a good way; one of my biggest concerns was that I wouldn't buy her as Furiosa, but she really gave it her all despite it clearly being outside her usual range.

In other ways, it was more mixed. Chris Hemsworth as the villain comes off as a bit too clownish, and as a result wasn't really intimidating or hateable enough to give the film the counterpoint to Furiosa that it really needed.

It's also overlong; two and a half hours is a little excessive for a film without much in the way of plot, and unlike Fury Road or Mad Max 2, it wasn't paced energetically enough to keep things flowing.

Still, it's not a bad way to spend an evening. It's solid entertainment, just lacking the spark of brilliance that elevated its predecessors.