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.
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
Reviews for Get Carter
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.
It's the insipid dialogue and inane direction that sets this film on a rocky path.
[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.
Stylishly directed by Stephen Kay, the new Carter isn't half as bad as it could have been.
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.
This is a pointless B-film actioner, a remake of the gritty 1971 British noir classic directed by Mike Hodges.
Stallone is so artificial, tanned and leathery you could replace his mouth with a zipper and sell him as a pocketbook.
The stylish murk seems to signal that everyone on the technical crew had his own agenda, each trying to outdo the others.
If you should happen to get this Carter, just stamp it 'return to sender' and ship it back without delay.
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