Get Carter (2000)

Please don't spend money on this.

How sad is this?

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible. Get Carter is a 2000 Remake of the same name and stars Sylvester Stallone, Rachael Leigh Cook, Miranda Richardson, Rhona Mitra, Alan Cumming, Mickey Rourke, John C. McGinley and Michael Caine and it's some sort of an "Anti-Revenge Thriller" that received a lot of bad reviews from critics and was a box office flop and although i understand why at a certain degree i didn't find the movie to be that bad as many critics said it was actually a fun and enjoyable movie and Sylvester Stallone gave a terrific performance as Jack Carter and in my opinion he fits the part perfectly plus he had a great chemistry with Rachael Leigh Cook who plays Doreen. Now my major flaw with the film was the rest of the cast that was simply not that good to begin with and even Cain's character was just kinda forgettable at times but the action, the cinematography, the soundtrack and Stallone were pretty good and if you ever find it on TV, Netflix or even on DVD check it out it's no Masterpiece for sure but it's a good action/drama film. (8/10)

Hollywood does not owe Sly Stallone very much. And chances are the feeling is mutual.With his "expendables" franchise, Sly was more or less telling his fans that he has minimal respect for them, that decades of stardom have taught him that filmgoers prefer pyrotechnics and fluff to real drama.And maybe he was right.But this production, coming at that particular stage of his career, is anything but fluff. The script is tight. Ditto the casting, ditto the acting. Sly slowly but surely takes hold of the viewer's focus and retains it, not so much for what he does, but for what his character is "capable" of doing. Big difference.Seen it a few times. It holds up nicely.

Jack Carter left his Seattle home to become a Las Vegas mob casino financial enforcer. He returns for the funeral of his brother Richie' after a car crash during a storm. Talking to daughter Doreen, Jack suspects it was murder. Cliff Brumby, whose club Richie ran, is financially linked to porn and prostitution baron Cyrus Paice, who claims to be just a front-man for IT tycoon Jeremy.After Jack finds a CD, containing images of Doreen, Jack goes after the lot of them...I've always had a fondness for this movie, but then again, I've never compared it to the remake, just as a stand alone Stallone vehicle.And it works this way. Compared to the original, it's just a remake by name, and loosely on the story, nothing else.Stallone is good in his role, but he especially shines when he shares scenes with Leigh Cook, the two of them have some real chemistry, and gives the film a more humanistic feel to it.There are some strange, but effective direction styles, especially when Mcginley is on screen, different alternates to situations and lines repeated in different manners, odd but strangely compelling.The rest of the cast support Stallone well, and make the film that little bit more classier than it should be, but all in all its a solid movie, pointless remake.If your a fan of Stallone, see this, it's really not as bad as the naysayers.

Some Hollywood remakes of classic Brit flicks work, to a degree (both Michael Caine films, actually) - The Italian Job and even 'Alfie', to my mind - but The Wicker Man and now, here, Get Carter, just don't.Why? Well, to make them different enough and presumably for American audiences, all semblance of what made them originally work flies out the window. Michael Caine was a believable bloke next door who was pushed and forced into taking the law into his own hands, not Rambo dressed as a yuppie who just has to LOOK at people and they cry...Then, they obviously thought 'stick in some British people, to make it more British', which it obviously doesn't. Miranda Richardson tries but poor old (or young) Alan Cumming is always on a lost cause as the techno-geek dot.com millionaire who's as spoilt rotten as the film is.None of the events seem to make sense, lurching from one precipice to the next and when violence (sudden, explosive, often without reason) isn't enough, some of the worst scenes I've ever witnessed, of Stallone attempting to emotionally bond with a young girl called Door-een. Even the way he says her name is haunting me now, after!I'd also forgotten that Mickey Rourke has a part in this - I strongly suspect that he wisely chooses to do the same, now that he's got his reputation and bad luck (& films) behind him. Maybe this shoddy affair was his turning point, his rock bottom?Perhaps the many faults lie with the film trying to follow the original too closely - which is where my aforementioned The Italian Job differs. The only tangible connection with both old and new in those are the Mini's, though purists might argue that the new style BMW owned Mini's in the remake aren't real Mini's etc etc.So, what we have here is a clump of the original story, crudely updated and dumped in a sea of other bits salvaged from other ill-advised ideas.