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Get Carter

  • 20002000
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  • 1h 42m
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5.1/10
35K
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A Las Vegas mob enforcer travels back to his hometown to investigate his brother's mysterious death.A Las Vegas mob enforcer travels back to his hometown to investigate his brother's mysterious death.A Las Vegas mob enforcer travels back to his hometown to investigate his brother's mysterious death.
IMDb RATING
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    • Stephen Kay
    • Ted Lewis(novel "Jack's Return Home")
    • David McKenna(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Sylvester Stallone
    • Rachael Leigh Cook
    • Miranda Richardson
    • Stephen Kay
    • Ted Lewis(novel "Jack's Return Home")
    • David McKenna(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Sylvester Stallone
    • Rachael Leigh Cook
    • Miranda Richardson
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    • 305User reviews
    • 99Critic reviews
    • 24Metascore
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    Rachael Leigh Cook co-stars
    Sylvester Stallone stars as Jack Carter
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    Stallone with director Stephen T. Kay
    Mark Canton at an event for Get Carter (2000)
    Rachael Leigh Cook at an event for Get Carter (2000)
    Rachael Leigh Cook at an event for Get Carter (2000)
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    Emilie de Ravin at an event for Get Carter (2000)
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    Sylvester Stallone
    Sylvester Stallone
    • Jack Carter
    Rachael Leigh Cook
    Rachael Leigh Cook
    • Doreen
    Miranda Richardson
    Miranda Richardson
    • Gloria
    Rhona Mitra
    Rhona Mitra
    • Geraldine
    Johnny Strong
    Johnny Strong
    • Eddie
    John C. McGinley
    John C. McGinley
    • Con McCarty
    Alan Cumming
    Alan Cumming
    • Jeremy Kinnear
    Michael Caine
    Michael Caine
    • Cliff Brumby
    John Cassini
    John Cassini
    • Thorpey
    Mickey Rourke
    Mickey Rourke
    • Cyrus Paice
    Mark Boone Junior
    Mark Boone Junior
    • Jim Davis
    • (as Mark Boone Jr.)
    Garwin Sanford
    Garwin Sanford
    • Les Fletcher
    Darryl Scheelar
    Darryl Scheelar
    • Security Guard
    Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe
    Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe
    • Girl #1
    • (as Crystal Lowe)
    Lauren Lee Smith
    Lauren Lee Smith
    • Girl #2
    • (as Lauren Smith)
    John Moore
    • Priest
    Tyler Labine
    Tyler Labine
    • Bud #1
    Mike Cook
    • Richard Carter
    • (as Michel Cook)
      • Stephen Kay
      • Ted Lewis(novel "Jack's Return Home")
      • David McKenna(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      One of the reasons why Sir Michael Caine agreed to appear in this remake to one of his best movies as it afforded him the chance to work with his friend, Sylvester Stallone. The two had bonded when they made John Huston's Victory (1981).
    • Goofs
      The Volvo 240 makes the sound of an American muscle car with a V8 engine.
    • Quotes

      Jeremy Kinnear: [to Jack] You know why I like golf, Mr. Carter? 'Cause the ball just keeps going away. The only sport where you hit that little sucker and it doesn't come back at you. I've gotta want to go after it and get it and when I get to it... I just knock it away again. You see what I'm saying, Mr. Carter? Once I get rid of it, I never wanna see it again.

    • Crazy credits
      Opening quote: "That's all we expect of man, this side the grave: his good is - knowing he is bad." --Robert Browning
    • Alternate versions
      The DVD version of the film contains several scenes not in the theatrical rlease.
    • Connections
      Featured in Stranded (2002)
    • Soundtracks
      Quick Temper
      Performed by Red Snapper

      Produced by Red Snapper

      Written by Richard Thair (as Thair), David Ayers (as Ayers), Ali Friend (as Friend)

      Published by Warp Music/EMI Music Publishing (ASCAP)

      Courtesy of Warp Records

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    4/10
    Inferior Remake
    The central figure of this film, Jack Carter, is a Las Vegas gangster who returns to his roots in Seattle following the death of his brother. This was officially reported as an accident, but Jack suspects that his brother may have been murdered by members of the local criminal underworld. The film charts Jack's attempts to find out the truth and to take revenge.

    This is, of course, a good example of Hollywood's cannibalising of the British and European film industries in its endless search for a good story. It is a remake of Mike Hodges's classic from 1971, one of the few great British gangster films. That film was one that grew out of, and yet at the same time transcended, a particular place and time, the North-East of England in the early seventies. This was a time of rapid social change in Britain, marked by increasing social mobility, growing permissiveness and relative prosperity, elements all reflected in the film. Like many of the best British films, it had a strong sense of place. Its fidelity to a real time and place was not a weakness but a strength, helping to establish it firmly in the realm of reality and to convey its major theme, the sterility and futility of the criminal lifestyle. Its view of the underworld acted as a necessary antidote to the tendency, very prevalent in the late sixties and early seventies, to glamorise criminals ("The Thomas Crown Affair), sentimentalise them ("The Italian Job") or mythologise them ("The Godfather").

    Stephen Kay's film attempts to establish a similar sense of place to the original; the Seattle we see has a bleak, forbidding atmosphere, always shrouded in rain or mist. It has a much more star-studded cast than the original, with at least one reasonably good performance from a convincingly thuggish Mickey Rourke. Despite this, however, it is a far inferior film when compared with the original. The main reason is the way in which the character of Jack Carter has been changed. Michael Caine's Carter was, for all his sharp suits and fast cars, no more than a ruthless street thug, a poor boy made bad at a time when other poor boys were making good. Sylvester Stallone's character, by contrast, may have a rough exterior (Stallone plays him as outwardly impassive, with a gruff, emotionless voice) but beneath it he is one of the good guys. The plot has been rewritten to make Carter less brutal and ruthless and to allow him to survive at the end. The original was a morality play on (as another reviewer has pointed out) the theme of "those who live by the sword shall die by the sword". The remake is simply a revenge thriller with a hero whom the audience can root for.

    This illustrates one of the perils of the remake. Kay's film has kept the title, the bare outlines of the plot and even some of the names of the characters, but completely fails to capture the spirit of the original. Moreover, it is unable to replace that spirit with anything new. If the film-makers had wanted to make an exciting goodie-versus-baddies revenge thriller, they could have chosen a better starting-point than the plot of a film made some thirty years earlier with a very different aim in mind.

    It has become something of a tradition for remakes to feature cameo appearances by the stars of the original films. Martin Scorsese's "Cape Fear", for example, featured no fewer than three actors who had appeared in the earlier J. Lee Thompson version, Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Martin Balsam. That, however, was a rare example of a remake that we as good as, or even better than, the original. Kay's "Get Carter", however, is not in the same class as Hodges's. It was, therefore, rather disappointing to see Michael Caine appearing in a remake that can only diminish one of his best films. 4/10
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      • October 6, 2000 (United States)
      • United States
      • Warner Bros.
      • English
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      • Seattle, Washington, USA
    • Production companies
      • Morgan Creek Entertainment
      • Franchise Pictures
      • The Canton Company
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    • 1 hour 42 minutes
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