A Film Review By Paul Perkins
Cast: Jim Carrey, Martin
Landau, Laurie Holden, Bruce Campbell, Jeffrey DeMunn
Director: Frank Darabont
Producers: Frank Darabont, Jim Behnke, Liz Glotzer, Michael Sloane
Screenplay: Michael Sloane, Frank Darabont
Rated: PG for language and mild thematic
elements.
Running Time: 150 Mins
Studio: Warner Bros
Release Date: 10-21-01
DVD/Video Date:
Seen At: Ritz East ,Philadelphia 12-12-01
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A Good Drama For This Holiday Season
Life has a lot of what’s if. This is the question that
the answer lies in the film. For Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey) he is a very
ambitious up-and coming Screenwriter for HHS studios in 1951.
His first produced screenplay has just hit the theater. He
has a beautiful actor girlfriend Sandra Sinclair (Amanda Detmer) that is on his
first film. Everything is looking great for him. The old saying goes when you
are on top some one always want to bring you down. For Peter it is the house
un-American activities committee who suspect Peter of communist involvement
during his college years. So in the process he looses his girlfriend and
job. So he takes a drive and he has a accident when he wakes he doesn’t know
who he is. He has amnesia he stumbles into a charming little town and he is
mistaken for one o the town’s long lost World War 2 hero.
With two great film under his belt as well as getting Oscar nomination for The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption. The director Frank Durabont is look for The Majestic to be the third one. The Majestic is good but it much different from his previous work. Like the other film that deal with the human sprit. This one deal with it as well as politics.
The story itself was pretty good. I believe in the
charters and felt what they were going through. The film was tad bit too long
but like The Green Mile was good and a tad bit too long as well. The polities
meaning to the film was good and it show a dark period in American History.
The actors in the film was good, Jim Carrey did a good job
and did not over do it on the comedy side and he play the drama role good. You
know how he can over do it in role and he film becomes a Jim Carrey show but
thank god in this role he did not. The supporting casts were very good as well
from the screen legend Martin Landau to the newcomer Laurie Holden play
they’re part good. The ending of the film was a little disporting because they
drag it out instead of just finishing the film.
© 2001 Paul Perkins