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Movie Reviews of Get Carter
Movie Review: A great B-Movie
Summary: 3 Stars
In 'Get Carter' Sylvestor Stallone plays Jack Carter a Las Vegas bookey or as he likes to say a "financial adjuster" and if you don't pay well let's just say he becomes 'Rocky' in an unofficial boxing match in the back alley while your tied down to a chair! However the movie is based upon the revenge of his brother's death who supposebly died in a drinking and driving accident which obviously he does not believe and takes a train to Seattle to check it out. So as Carter searches all of Seattle for his brother's killer the suspects keep changing. For whenever he muscles or question's the one who he thinks organized it or did it they give him another name. So after a while he no longer cares who exactly did it and starts killing anyone he for surely knows was at least involved. Get Carter also co stars Mickey Rourke, Alan Cumming, and Michael Caine.** 1/2 stars out of 5, Recommendation if you liked 'Collateral Damage' with Arnold Schwarzenegger you'll love 'Get Carter'.
Movie Review: Kinder, gentler Carter
Summary: 3 Stars
[Review based upon Theatre viewing].
Michael Caine can out-act Sly Stallone but he can't out-enertain him: I nver saw the 1971 original but Stallone, like John Wayne before him, eats up each frame, dominating the enterprise, kicking up a few notches, to use that millenium cliche.
Glad he was on hand, because this one of those could-shoulda-been-alot-better deals: seemingly, at every turn Carter's behavior is criticized and analyzed by his exasperated sister-in-law and her teenage daughter. Another example of militant feminism being injected into a plotline that is really pitched to those men and women who like to watch a macho guy snarl, growl, kick, and smash down.
Very effective musical soundtrack, with Groove Armada's "If Everybody Looked The Same", the stand-out. [Though not on the actual soundtrack album - check out Groove Armada's "Vertigo" CD].
Movie Review: Visually Stunning, Stallone Shines
Summary: 3 Stars
Add one part Sly Stallone, one part Mickey Rourke, and small slivers of Miranda Richardson, Rachel Leigh Cook, and the marvelous Michael Caine and the end result is: a cast that almost rises above the basically plotless script.The cast is great, the camerawork is excellent, the feel of the movie is there, but somehow we are missing a bit of heart.
The internet porn angle is kind of original I guess, and the scenes between Cook and Stallone are touching, but this film has some missing element that I can't put my finger on.
The biggest problem I had with this entertaining film is that there is no real morality here. It's all about revenge. Kind of cold.
Movie Review: Apart from Sylvester Stallone....another thing impressive is the background music!
Summary: 3 Stars
Stallone is good...music is good...plot is good, but one thing which could have been good is the script.Movie Review: Classic Michael Caine actioner gets tepid remake
Summary: 2 Stars
Hollywood has remade movies for decades. When sound was introduced in the late 1920s, it was only logical to take some of the better silent movies and do them again. Cecil B. DeMille remade his 1925 movie The Ten Commandments in 1956 It is a timeless story and will no doubt be done again in the future. Some movies have great stories that are worth retelling. An example is A Star is Born which was first filmed in 1937. It was remade in 1954 and in 1976. Sometimes, a producer will buy the rights to a foreign film in order to do an English language version. Three Men and a Baby was a remake of a French film. All too often, however, remakes happen for reasons that are logical only to the people who decide to do them. Get Carter is one of those movies. The original an English film released in 1971. It starred Michael Caine, who also appears in the new version, perhaps as a reminded that, most of the time, what was successfully done in the past is best left there. Jack Carter, originally Caine's character, is this time played by Sylvester Stallone. Carter is a very bad man, which worked perfectly the first time around. Why the producers decided to tone the character down for modern audiences is beyond me. He is still unsavory, but that's not the same thing as being bad to the bone. The result is that this Carter is far less interesting.
After working in Las Vegas for five years as a debt enforcer for a casino boss, Carter returns home to Seattle after his brother is killed in a car accident. He finds the circumstances of the death to be suspicious. A little checking around shows that some of the people the brother knew have a lot to hide. Soon, several of them have reason to fear Carter, who, after all, is all too familiar with their shady little world. The trick for Carter in this dark little thriller is to find out what his brother might have known that cost him his life.
Get Carter is literally one of the darkest films I have seen in years. Director Stephen T. Kay wants to make sure we get in the mood of the story. I was yearning for a little sunshine long before the movie ended.
I will note that Stallone gives a more subtle and nuanced performance than usual. If the producers were determined to do this remake, then Stallone was a good choice for the lead. Besides Caine, the movie also stars two of my favorite British actors - Miranda Richardson and Alan Cummin, both playing Americans. Richardson adds class to the picture, but her role is hardly a stretch for her. Add Cummin to a growing list of English actors who have learned how to play American villains better than Americans themselves. As a vain, self-centered zillionaire, Cummin's character is delightfully nasty.
This movie is not the worst choice you could make to spend an evening with. Had the original never existed, reviewers probably would have been kinder. The fact is that it suffers by comparison. If you like your thrillers dark and on the nihilistic side, you might enjoy this, but if you can find a copy of the original, by all means watch it instead.