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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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Maybe it's all the rain and leaden skies, but instead of conjuring up the rueful mood it's after, the film mostly just plays dark, wet, and heavy.

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Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe

This film is flat, boring and poorly made when it should have been just the opposite, and much of that blame lies squarely on Kay's shoulders.

Full Review Source: Screen It! | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!

Worked for me despite its slow pace and somewhat predictable story line, because of the sharp turn given by Sly Stallone, its groovy tunes and its generally dark and gritty nature.

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Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

...not really a bad crime thriller so much as it is a routine one.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

Stallone's performance is unremarkable in every way, unless you count the disgusting veins protruding from his shoulders and arms.

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01/01/00
Jon Popick
Jon Popick
Planet Sick-Boy

It is not a terrible movie, and Stallone has appeared in far worse. It's just that, although diverting, it's too routine for its own good.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
01/01/00
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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Isn't likely to satisfy either action buffs or the actor's fans.

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01/01/00
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter

David McKenna's script is a frayed string and a contextual nightmare, peppered with puzzling references to the first film in a lame attempt at homage.

Full Review Source: Mr. Showbiz | comment Comment
01/01/00
Lawrence Terenzi
Lawrence Terenzi
Mr. Showbiz

For those just interested in getting a closer look at whatever the hell happened to Mickey Rourke's face -- this could be a keeper. But probably not.

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01/01/00
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

Stallone's Jack Carter can't shut up -- and his sentimental ramblings, accompanied by facial twitches that are apparently meant to approximate acting, are stupefying.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
01/01/00
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post

This gloomy revenge thriller is a sadistic cartoon ... whose phony moral soft center ... really is the last straw.

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Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
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Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

The result is Get Carter for dummies, the biggest ones being those who pay to see it. It's also an incoherent, irredeemable mess.

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Mark Caro
Mark Caro
Chicago Tribune

It's ... been shorn of all the edginess and seedy, unsentimental plot elements that made the original a revered cult classic.

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01/01/00
Mark Rahner
Mark Rahner
Seattle Times

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Matt Easterbrook
Matt Easterbrook
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01/01/00
Max Messier
Max Messier
Filmcritic.com

Carter, who goes to Seattle to hunt down his brother's killer, may have entered a labyrinth of evil, but his response to it ... is as hollow as it is monolithic.

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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

A stimulating visual showcase of stylish filmmaking that keeps a viewer's attention.

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Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
N/R

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Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
 
 
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