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In different hands The Majestic could have been a complete disaster but Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) manages to craft a heart-warming tale despite the slightly unbelievable premise.

Es una película bonita y no necesariamente bonito es sinónimo de bueno, pero en este caso sí lo es, la premisa es relativamente original, y a pesar de que en los primeros 20 minutos sabes como se va a desarrollar la trama, existen unos pequeñísimos giros de guion lo suficiente para no perder el interés. Me gusta la banda sonora y en general la estética de la película, podría refinarse esta última, pero al verla sientes paz, como si todo lo malo ya hubiera terminado. En un primer momento sentí que sería una excusa para que la película se convierta en propaganda de el gobierno de los Estados Unidos, pero es todo lo contrario, es una crítica al sistema y como soldados que creían en el país, dieron la vida por el mismo; pero la patria por la cual murieron gradualmente se convirtió en la que persigue a sus propios ciudadanos.

Good movie, not a comedy. This is more of a serious role for Jim Carey. In my opinion he did an awesome job. A man involved in a car accident gets amnesia.

This was a fine film that only professional critics Roger Ebert and Rex Reed 'got'. Pay attention to those bookend scenes of Peter Applegate and the unseen studio 'suits' folks - what happens in between is a meditation on the movies and movie theaters (at their best) as a source of personal inspiration and role-models and a place for building community values. 'Even has a few subtle things to say about real saints and heroes maybe being a little too good to be happy life companions for the rest of us.

Majestic is an underrated film. Most of the film has good acting, a good romantic story and more good stuff. I don't know how critics could give this film such negative reviews.

The Majestic is a heart-warming little story with an underlying, big-picture message. Jim Carrey's performance is fantastic as always, but the movie can't help but feel predictable and a little cliche. I also feel that it struggles with having a central identity, constantly switching between being a drama, comedy, and romance. It's a nice film, but it doesn't break any ground, and to be honest I wouldn't watch it again.

It was a pretty well made movie. The story was interesting, the acting was good and the movie was entertaining, for the most part. Even though it might have been a little too long and it was predictable at times, it wasn't a bad movie at all.

despite of some cliches,i loved it.this movie show that a simple accident(a little animal on your way)can change and even more can mean your life,if you forgot your past and some cheap goals like being a writer of a B **** floating in river we can experience a new life and new goals...

I'd never heard of this movie but noticed it on a list of flops; it's actually a very entertaining film. There are nowhere near enough films made about the shameful McCarthy witch hunts (Amerika just can't admit it's wrong, can it?) and while this is no "The Front", it's engaging enough

Jim Carrey is one of those comedian/actors who's had more than his share of potential overlooked movies. Whether it's his first commercial failure, the underrated The Cable Guy, or his excellent turn as Andy Kaufman in Milos Forman's Man On the Moon, it seems like most of Carrey's best movies (with the exception maybe of The Truman Show) are his least appreciated. But, let's face it Man on the Moon received lots of critical praise and even some award nominations when it came out, and Cable Guy certainly has its cult of defenders. But perhaps his best-least-appreciated movie is is Frank Darabont's 2001 homage to Frank Capra, The Majestic. Carrey stars as Peter Appleton, a Hollywood screenwriter who is blacklisted during the 1950s communist witch hunt. After an accident gives him a wicked case of amnesia, Peter winds up in the small town of Lawson, where he is mistaken for another man Luke Trimble, a local hero who was believed to have been killed in WWII. And Peter, not knowing any better, assumes he must be Luke, too. Together with his "father" (Martin Landau), Peter/Luke begins restoring The Majestic movie theater that had been closed down for years. won't get into what happens from there, because it would ruin several of the movie's surprises. But I will say that The Majestic has gotten a bad rap. Maybe audiences were expecting something else from director Darabont, who was coming off The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. Maybe the movie lacked a certain cynicism that many people require to distance themselves from having a sincere emotional response to a movie. Maybe it wasn't funny enough (it's not a comedy) or "edgy" enough for Carrey's two audiences. Whatever the reason, the movie never really found an audience. I rather like it, though and I'm not a person who automatically responds to something being called "Capra-esque." Here, I think the description works (clearly, that's what Darabont was going for). But the movie's got more on its mind; it's a tribute to old Hollywood, and a minor history lesson about a pretty scary time in America. Despite his penchant for overselling a moment (a trait especially apparent in his comedies), Carrey makes a likable everyman he's not afraid to be totally sincere and throw his heart into the role. The failure of The Majestic meant that Darabont who is awesome, by the way wouldn't make another movie until 2007. When he did, he went back to adapting Stephen King (The Majestic remains his only non-King-affiliated film) and made damn sure the movie had plenty of cynicism. That movie was The Mist, which was equally overlooked and, in many ways, kind of the anti-Majestic. Audiences rejected that, too. I guess both films were missing the one thing audiences really want: Morgan Freeman narration.

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