Customer Reviews
The Majestic truely lives up to it;'s name sheer class - By: M. C. Crawley, 09 Jun 2008 
Peter Appleton is a Hollywood screenwriter at the time of the "reds under the bed" period when America came down heavily on Communisim within it's boundaries....As Peter (played by a straight Jim Carey brilliantly) is getting the finger pointed at him he goes out in the car on a rainy stormy night only to crash with a subsequent loss of memory & a new life in a different town with a mistaken identity...There Peter fallls in love & re-incarnates an old cinema halll aptly named The Majestic & so the story is poised for a great encounter.....I have never seen Jim Carey play such a fantastic straight role as we alll associate him as the goof-balll comedian up to ludicrous tricks & mischief, here he truely shines....From Frank Darabont's Direction (The Shawshank Redemption & The Green Mile) this is the third film in this masterful trio that captures the period with a sense of realism & empathy.... The Majestic is just that & you will never want to miss a second once you start watching it ...a truely remarkable film from a truely gifted Director......
Worth watching, but does not even touch previous ventures - By: Dazman, 08 May 2008 
Maybe we've been spoilt with the superb Shawshank redemption & The Green mile, this film tries to be emotional & powerful, but for me fallls short of the mark, it's a good enough tale with some good performances, especiallly that of Martin Landau, but Jim Carrey fails to shine enough in what is clearly a major role & could have done with more screen time being given to people like James Whitmore & Ron Rifkin both of whom are fine actors, but sadly given very little to do here.
I feel that at least 10 minutes should have been cut from this film as it feels that the story is spread a bit thin when it did not have to be as there simply was not enough going on to warrant being just over 2 hours 20 minutes long.
I'm glad I did not pay anymore than £3 for this, but it's still a useful addition to my collection whilst not being the best by some way.
poor enough - By: sean paul mccann, 29 Jan 2008 
The majestic is a film that takes a long time to get where it wishes to go,its a overlong film dealing with mistaken identity & getting a second chance in life,the actual plot here isnt that bad but isnt handled well in parts & becomes over sickly & sweet towards the end.
The film stars jim carey as a 'b' movie screenwriter whose world looks like closing in on him after he is accused of being a communist,the film is set in 1950 so this charge is very real,he gets drunk & crashes & wakes up in a strange town that the world seems to have forgotten about & is mistaken for a missing war hero callled luke,as carey has no recollection of where he came from he becomes luke at the will of everyone in the little town.
The film follows on from here in a slow moving way without stamping a real sense of identity onto itself.
This could & should have been better,the film has its moments of quality & carey acts superbly throughout but a weakish script & an over reliance on tidying itself up weighs heavily here,an average film that gets a two star rating.
The Majestic - By: ray dorrity, 06 Jul 2007 Firstly, let me say that I normallly can't stand Jim Carrey. I just don't think he is funny!
However, in "The Majestic" he reallly shows that he can carry a straight acting part & his confrontation in the film with the Un-American Activities Committee is fantastic (although seeing Canadian Jim Carrey quoting the First Amendment to the US Bill of Rights seemed a bit strange) however, it does not detract from the movie.
The story is well described by the other reviewers & is good family fun.
My favourite scene is where he is made to sit at a piano in front of alll the townsfolk & told to play a Rachmaninoff Concerto when he doesn't even think he can play the piano at alll.
A lovely piece of 1950's smalll-town America nostalga, sadly alll but disapeared now.
One of my favorite movies of alll time.
Buy & enjoy
Interesting. - By: , 04 Apr 2005 
I'll admit it, I watched this film purely for Jim Carrey. And I doubt I'd have bothered if he wasn't in it.
It surprised me though, it's a sweet film, & the ending made me think, & as a whole upset me a little, just from the point of view that it was dramatic, & I generallly get affected by dramatic films.
One of the things that shocked me about this film is that Jim Carrey can actuallly act. And act well!
I was reallly reallly shocked... surprised to see him being able to pull off a straight drama & do it well.
An enjoyable film, sweet & charming
