Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

A Masterpiece!

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The directors of today must pine for a villain like AL LETTIERI. You can tell that he is a man who has never sat in front of a computer. He has never worried about calories. He drinks bourbon at 10 am in the morning. He would never pretend to be a feminist. If he ever fought a war, he must have chopped off a few enemy heads for fun. When he does get beaten up/shot, it is on the big screen and only by the best men - BRONSON, BRANDO, WAYNE, PACINO and MCQUEEN.I cannot say anything about BRONSON that hasn't already been said. There isn't a more effortlessly badass actor than him. He just turns up on screen and doesn't do much. He looks a little more weather beaten than EASTWOOD. His body language is comparable to BRUCE LEE and BRANDO. All his character wants to do in this movie is get his melons picked. And he would kill anyone who came between him and his melons :) The film is a terrific small town action flick. Maybe just a notch below CHARLEY VARRICK, due to the fact that BRONSON bests the villains too easily. The film could also have used a sharper background score. But its great entertainment. All those American backroads, unusual characters (like the quiet book reading beer drinking lady who lets BRONSON use the phone when he is on the run), creeks, gas stations (the film begins at one) and bars are something that any film viewer would cherish.RICHARD FLEISCHER has directed some terrific films in his career - like 10 RILLINGTON PLACE and NARROW MARGIN. ELMORE LEONARD writes some great one liners and scenes. The first scene in the film when BRONSON lets the Mexican lady use the toilet despite the gas station attendants objections is such a great opening. The hands on action scenes were terrific. They are all set in dusty backroads and rocky mountain ranges.It is for films like MR.MAJESTYK that i watch American movies.I think a couple of locations might have been used by David Lynch for WILD AT HEART and Tarantino for DEATHPROOF. Or they might have been inspired by them.

"The greatest actor I ever worked with", said the great Sergio Leone. He worked quickly and efficiently. Acted so natural it didn't look like acting. Bronson is wonderful in this very fine movie, although some of the snide reviewers here don't seem to agree. Inexplicably rated at only 6.8 on this site. Ridiculous. Formulaic and predictable ? An opinion that beggars belief. Superb script by Elmore Leonard, a professional, keeps you guessing. I saw nothing predictable about the way the action unrolls. I had no idea what Majestyk would think up next. Entertaining, suspenseful, humorous, in fact deadpan witty. When times are hard, everyone gets Bronson on their side. Even the weasel. He's simply the nemesis that Drexl Spivey had in mind. Bronson is REAL; and Al Lettieri is a terrific bad guy, especially in his handling of the weasel. Their relationship was hilarious.

Although the desert landscape and lowlife milieu appalled me strongly, I remember having seen the Majestyk flick twice, or thrice, knowing as I did that I was supposed to enjoy it, and a similar impression was made upon me, at the same age, by an _actioner with Chuck Norris and Carradine, but I never managed to like Norris as much as Bronson, whom I had first seen in a railway western from the early '70s. Anyway, Bronson brought and suggested a world that was very unlike my own—and sordid, depressing. I know Majestyk isn't a very acclaimed flick, quite on the contrary; but, when I was merely 12, I strove to enjoy it, it was supposed to be manly and what not. (It wasn't boring—and I didn't find it ridiculous, but convincing.) As subject, it's fit for Bronson—sleaze masquerading as social awareness —socially aware sleaze.Its world of scum seemed alien, menacing and disheartening. Later, I grasped that it was the world of pulp and hardboiled fiction—taken, of course, here, to a very undemanding and mindless level. I mean, this is not, I presume, how hardboiled is supposed to look like.Nowadays, movies bore me—maybe all of them, and certainly the very idea of watching them, or taking an interest in them, as I have found them to be only surrogates of art or fun; I have ceased seeing movies. Therefore, I only publish here now and then. As I don't watch movies anymore, perhaps I will go on remembering movies I have seen long ago. Take it as a treat for the fans of this page. The cold ashes of my movie criticism, and of a former identity.

As noted this is Bronson's sole Elmore Leonard title. Too bad, as Bronson is perfectly cast as the toughest farmer since Van Heflin or Alan Ladd. The cap on his head is a nice touch. Majestyk is pitted against an organized crime hit man presumably at the rank of The Mechanic and played by the quirky Al Lettieri. Al had already completed The Godfather and The Getaway. The latter role of Rudy was fine preparation for this one. In the battle of the tough guy killers, Bronson is by far the best. He physically bests Renda in every one on one battle. He also out maneuvers him every time. Renda needs a gang of support to deal with this Viet Nam ranger and ex-con.This role was the perfect prep for Bronson as he moves from Colorado into Death Wish territory.