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Movie Reviews of Get Carter
Movie Review: who doesn't love a good revenge story?!
Summary: 4 Stars
I mean seriously, who doesn't love a good revenge story?! I admit, I'm a sucker for Stallone, but I love this movie, and I'm not even a big action movie fan. You can't help but root for Stallones' character in this one. I think it's a highly underappreciated movie.Movie Review: The Stallion strikes again!
Summary: 4 Stars
This film does for Stallone what Pulp Fiction did for Travolta. Stallone and Rourke play two seasoned thugs. The characters are gritty and believable as are the fight scenes. Definitely worth the ride.Movie Review: Get Carter
Summary: 4 Stars
I liked the movie,the action,the chases,the cadillac.Stallone pulls it off,Michael Caine,Mickey Rourke and the cast are all good.The plot is good.It's more an action movie but a good one at that.Movie Review: Mediocre Remake
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a mediocre remake of a 1971 film by the same name, with Sylvester Stallone inheriting the title role from Michael Caine (who also has a minor role in this film). The screenplay has been updated to make it more techie (cyber porn, cell phones and internet billionaires). Writer David McKenna ("American History X") attempts to flesh out Carter a bit more and make him a nice guy in a bad profession. Unfortunately, while that helps, the dialogue is uniformly bad and the characters are boringly stereotypical.Director Stephen Kay is creative with the camera, but adds excessive style without regard to substance. He throws every technique ever invented into the frame in a flurry of strange camera angles, strobe effects and fast forward photography. The result is a presentation that is more idiosyncratic than brilliant. There is so much hand held photography that by the end of the film, the viewer has whiplash from trying to follow the action. Speaking of action, there is not much of it. There is a lot of talk, a few fistfights and one decent car chase and that is about it. For a film that clearly targets a male audience, this film fails to deliver what guys want most.
Stallone gives his standard tough guy performance, which is generally among the best in the business. He is still in good shape at 54, but one has to wonder how much longer he can keep playing these characters before it becomes incongruous. As has been the rule in remakes of late, the former Carter, Michael Caine is given a supporting role in this film. Caine is excellent as the slime bag pulling the strings behind the scenes. Rachel Leigh Cook also gives a fine performance as Carter's niece, and does an outstanding job in one poignant scene where she describes to her uncle how she was raped. Alan Cumming plays a sniveling rich boy who made millions in technology and provides an almost comic contrast to Stallone's deadly seriousness. Mickey Roarke provides his character with a sinister and despicable personality, and is still as tough as they come. However, he is another actor whose thug days are numbered.
I rated this film a 5/10. Despite some good acting, a dull script is embellished with unnecessary directorial flourishes making it more annoying than entertaining . Women subtract at least two points for testosterone overload.
Movie Review: Please Uncle Jack, Don't Take It To Another Level
Summary: 3 Stars
Sylvester Stallone stars as "financial adjuster" Jack Carter. Leaving Vegas for rainy Seattle, Carter is on a quest to find out who murdered his little brother and why. Along the way he tries to mend his broken relationships with his sister in law (Miranda Richardson) and his niece (Rachael Leigh Cook). He battles old enemies like Cyrus Pace (Mickey Rourke), an Internet porn purveyor and new ones like a shady club owner (original Carter Michael Caine), and a wimpy computer entrepreneur (Alan Cumming). I guess I never realized how terrible Stallone is. You can't understand a word he says and the man doesn't grasp subtlety. He lumbers around looking awkward during emotional scenes. Thankfully the supporting cast proves much more exciting. Caine, as always, is classy and fun and Cumming is too. The draw here is Mickey Rourke. This was before his comeback and before countless plastic surgeries that would leave his face ruined. He looks like the old Mickey here which is to say good. He's also kept in great shape and his final fight with Carter is thrilling. All of the action is scored to pulsing techno music which livens things up considerably. The sexy women like Cook and Rhona Mitra, as the brother's mistress, are also very enjoyable. Unfortunately for Cook all her scenes are opposite Stallone and she is stuck trying to elicit some genuine emotion from him. She does fine. It's an okay if pointless remake that should at least be checked out by Rourke fans.