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Get Carter (2000)

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Reviews Counted:58

Fresh:6

Rotten:52

Average Rating:3.5/10

Consensus: A remake that doesn't approach the standard of the original, Get Carter will likely leave viewers confused and unsatisfied. Also, reviews are mixed concerning Stallone's acting.

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $6,637,830

Synopsis: Jack Carter's brother is dead. And Jack (Sylvester Stallone) wants to know why. A Las Vegas mob enforcer, he carefully packs his guns and sets off for Seattle by train. At the funeral, he discovers... Jack Carter's brother is dead. And Jack (Sylvester Stallone) wants to know why. A Las Vegas mob enforcer, he carefully packs his guns and sets off for Seattle by train. At the funeral, he discovers his brother was full of alcohol when he died in a car accident. But according to his niece, Doreen (Rachael Leigh Cook), his brother didn't drink. Jack starts on a tortuous trail that leads, via gang boss Brumby (Michael Caine) and porno-loving thug Cyrus Paice (Mickey Rourke), to a Seattle computer billionaire named Jeremy Kinnear (Alan Cumming). Among those trying to "get Carter" is Con (John C. McGinley), another enforcer from Las Vegas. GET CARTER is the second remake of the bleak and gritty 1971 British thriller of the same title. In the original, directed by Mike Hodges (CROUPIER), Michael Caine was Carter. The first remake was George Armitage's 1972 film HIT MAN. Scriptwriter David McKenna and director Stephen T. Kay have shifted the location in GET CARTER 2000 to the Pacific Northwest. While they have made it less perverse than the original, this version is more upscale, and more jolting, with splintered jump cuts and pulsating music. [More]

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Michael Caine

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Michael Caine, Mickey Rourke, Alan Cumming, John C. McGinley

Director: Stephen Kay

Director: Stephen Kay
Story: Ted Lewis

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If you strip the material of its ineffective level of performances, what we are left with is a concept that, at least at the core, is quite intriguing.

Full Review Source: Cinemaphile.org | comment Comment
02/07/01
David Keyes
David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org

While the look of the film is very stylish and the actors, including veteran actor Michael Caine, are good, the story and characterizations are a bit thin.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
01/01/01
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
N/R

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Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

It's the insipid dialogue and inane direction that sets this film on a rocky path.

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01/01/00
Bob Graham
Bob Graham
San Francisco Chronicle

How does a numbing mishmash of a movie like this get made?

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
01/01/00
Bob Thomas
Bob Thomas
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
N/R

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Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor
Salon.com

[Stallone] has to wade through way too many scenes in which show-offy camera work turns him upside down or flashes lights at him or divides him up into three screens.

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01/01/00
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Stylishly directed by Stephen Kay, the new Carter isn't half as bad as it could have been.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Vognar
Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News

Get Carter is a movie conceived around a handful of cool scenes.

Full Review Source: Citysearch | comment Comment
01/01/00
Dan Fazio
Dan Fazio
Citysearch

This is a remake of an early-'70s British flick of the same name starring Michael Caine, a great movie that reeked of despair and emptiness. This one is just damp and mildewy.

Full Review Source: IFilm | comment Comment
01/01/00
Dave White
Dave White
IFilm

This is a pointless B-film actioner, a remake of the gritty 1971 British noir classic directed by Mike Hodges.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
01/01/00
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Stallone is so artificial, tanned and leathery you could replace his mouth with a zipper and sell him as a pocketbook.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
01/01/00
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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Little more than a shallow retread of many, many movies gone by.

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01/01/00
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

The stylish murk seems to signal that everyone on the technical crew had his own agenda, each trying to outdo the others.

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01/01/00
Elvis Mitchell
Elvis Mitchell
New York Times
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Emily Blunt
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01/01/00
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

If you should happen to get this Carter, just stamp it 'return to sender' and ship it back without delay.

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01/01/00
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Once again, [Stallone] cops out on shadows and dimension.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
01/01/00
Gene Seymour
Gene Seymour
Newsday

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01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
 
 
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