The Majestic
Year: 2001
Studio: NPV Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures, Castle Rock Entertainment, Darkwoods Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Frank Darabont
Cast: Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Laurie Holden, Gerry Black, David Ogden Stiers, Bob Balaban
Crew: David Tattersall (Director of Photography), Frank Darabont (Producer), Mark Isham (Original Music Composer), Michael Sloane (Screenplay), Jim Page (Editor), Frank Darabont (Director)
Runtime: 152 minutes
Release: Dec 21, 2001
IMDb: 6.80/10 by 761 users
Popularity: 2
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 72,000,000
Revenue: 37,317,673

It's time for the Majestic review.... ...RED SCARE!!!! It makes a play at it in the very start of the film. It loudly proclaims that, HEY, WATCH THIS MOVIE, IT'S ABOUT FREE SPEECH AND THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST!!!!! And it does it as loud as it can... ...and then it kind of forgets what the movie is about up until the last 15 minutes. However, the bulk of the movie does seem like the kind of film that would fit in the Hollywood Blacklist Era. The plot, the acting, the setting, all seems to be very much a 1950s feel good movie... ...and then it veers off again and delivers on the 1st Amendment moral to end the film with a light heavy hand...if that makes sense. So, it feels disjointed, but in a way that oddly fits the premise to begin with. Almost as if it is trying to be a movie in a movie, which might have been the point. Watch it once, it will entertain you. Watch it more than once and you'll be bored.