Ian Hill’s review published on Letterboxd:
I've always felt this film is a classic example of a debut director trying to cram everything in to his/her first feature because they know full well that the chance may never come again and they might well not get to make another. Every scene in Mad Max feels like it has come out of an entirely different genre: there's the gentle romantic movie, the cop movie, the Western, the juvenile delinquent flick, the road movie, the dystopian sci-fi film, the backwoods slasher, the revenge picture ... all are stitched together by the low budget kinetic grit in a bunch of superb action sequences. Brian May's score convincingly adapts itself everytime to the tone of the genre being attempted, and contributes to the generally scittish tone of this wayward film. It's a flawed approach, but a number of factors combine to make this a rare instance of a film's flaws being the very elements that make it so special. A neat trick to pull off if you can manage it!