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02/09/01
Get Carter (2000)
10 %
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
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 his brother was full of alcohol when he died in a car accident. But according to his niece, Doreen... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Michael Caine, Mickey Rourke
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06/05/08
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Stylized visuals add some spice, but they cannot overcome the formulaic and obvious screenplay, which is of no help to a film that is structured as a mystery.
10/14/07
The original Get Carter (1971) is better, but this is quite watchable as far as modern-era remakes go.
02/16/06
Is it a zombie coming to alert us it's time to start shopping for a Halloween costume? No, it's just our old friend Sylvester Stallone, sleepwalking his way through a stillborn crime drama that belongs in a morgue, not in a movie theater.
06/15/02
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06/05/02
Get Carter ultimately lacks the courage of its convictions: it can't stand to be thought of as the pulp it so clearly is.
10/24/01
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04/16/01
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.
02/07/01
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