i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Another favorite movie with one of my favorite actors, Charles Bronson. I do not know how many times I've seen it, I just know I always watch it with great pleasure. Not only for Bronson's sake. We have here another giant actor, in his own and figurative, Al Lettieri, a super specialist in the type of villain, unfortunately very young dead. An absolutely unique actor in the all-rounder of the very bad guys, a personality out of the ordinary. We then have Paul Koslo, another super specialist in bad stupid boy roles. We also have two absolute beauties, Linda Cristal and Lee Purcell. Very beautiful music by Charles Bernstein, great Cinematography by Richard H. Kline. Richard Fleischer is a veteran of spectacular action movies, he done all genres, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Drama, War, History, Biblical, Musical, Romance, one of America's most prolific and longevous directors.

"Mr. Majestyk" is one of Bronson's best. There is action, good direction and Al Letteri is a marvellous villain (mixing with the real underworld probably helps). The plot is kept fairly simple which is the right way in my opinion. Bronson who plays a farmer of melons, faces a threat from the local mob who wish to take over his land. Knowing him, he won't exactly feel threatened - just a tad annoyed! Hold on to your seats, this film comes thick and fast!!

Charles Bronson plays watermelon farmer/landowner(and Vietnam veteran) Vince Majestyk, who runs into trouble with organized crime when they threaten his workers, then scare them off, threatening to put Majestyk out of business, which of course he won't take lying down, leading to an escalating one man war that leads to an exciting finale.Charles Bronson is again effective as a wronged man out for revenge, and story is interesting, with good direction by Richard Fleisher, who keeps the film moving at a brisk pace. Certainly an offbeat film(Bronson as watermelon farmer may sound humorous), but it definitely is not played that way!

Charlie Bronson's a melon farmer who just wants to get his melons in on time, but fate conspires against him. First of all when he arrives at his melon fields with a crew of migrant labour, he finds that a wannabe tough guy has already set a crew of drunks and vagrants to work. Of course, Charlie soon sees him off with his tail between his legs. The pipsqueak reports him to the police, and because there's a gun involved and Charlie has a history, he finds himself locked up with only his anxiety over his melons going mouldy to keep him company.Actually, that's not quite true because while in the cells he comes across the wonderful Al Lettieri as a ruthless hit man. The bus they're in is ambushed by some of Al's men but Charlie turns the situation to his advantage by kidnapping Al and trading him with the police in return for his own freedom.This is a typical seventies crime thriller that lacks any credible storyline and falls back on the kind of violence typical of both the era and Charles Bronson movies in general. It's also a typical example, I suppose, of why Elmore Leonard never really enjoyed the success as a screenwriter as he did as a writer of novels, even though his novels were 80% dialogue for some reason he never seemed able to translate the natural sound of his written dialogue to the screen. Anyway, the violence is quite brutal – and often gratuitous. At one point bad guy Lettieri and his cronies drive into a portable toilet into which one luckless deputy has just entered. Lettieri prevents his comrade from shooting the dazed cop to death, and picks up a plank instead, which he uses to efficiently batter the poor soul to death. 'Make them think he was run over by a truck,' he explains. We don't actually see the act, just Lettieri's face as he dispassionately goes about his work, and for this reason it is probably the most effective moment of the film.Speaking of Lettieri, he's by far the best thing about this film; it's a shame that he would die within a year or two, cut down by a heart attack at the relatively young age of 47. He was just beginning to make a name for himself as a Hollywood heavy, and there's no doubting that, like here, he would have enlivened many an otherwise routine film if he'd had the opportunity. If you like Bronson films you probably won't be disappointed by this one, but it isn't one that most people are likely to remember.