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Title: Get Carter (2000)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Sylvester Stallone | ... | Jack Carter | |
| Miranda Richardson | ... | Gloria | |
| Rachael Leigh Cook | ... | Doreen | |
| Rhona Mitra | ... | Geraldine | |
| Johnny Strong | ... | Eddie | |
| John C. McGinley | ... | Con McCarty | |
| Alan Cumming | ... | Jeremy Kinnear | |
| Michael Caine | ... | Cliff Brumby | |
| John Cassini | ... | Thorpey | |
| Mickey Rourke | ... | Cyrus Paice | |
| Mark Boone Junior | ... | Jim Davis (as Mark Boone Jr.) | |
| Garwin Sanford | ... | Les Fletcher | |
| Darryl Scheelar | ... | Security Guard | |
| Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe | ... | Girl #1 (as Crystal Lowe) | |
| Lauren Lee Smith | ... | Girl #2 (as Lauren Smith) | |
Years ago, Jack Carter left his Seattle home to become a Las Vegas mob casino financial enforcer. He returns for the funeral of his brother Richard "Richie" after a car crash during a storm, atypical of the careful house-father. Talking to the widow, daughter Doreen, and enigmatic Geraldine, 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 ITC tycoon Jeremy Kinnear. Someone hired goon Thorpey to make Jack return to Las Vegas. Jack's partner Con McCarty is restless, apparently about their boss Les Fletcher, whose wife had an affair with Jack. Someone breaks into Richie's home, looking for a crucial CD. Written by KGF Vissers
I truly wanted this film to be good, but as i suspected it is terrible.The film manages to wimp out at every moment that made the Caine version so hard hitting, brutal and memorable. Kay has given many of the charcters a moral compass, and from what i can see, for no other reason than that the producers obviously think an American audience need clearly drawn boundaries between who is 'good' and who is 'bad'. Stallone's burgeoning relationship with his niece (she is definitely his neice, none of the ambiguity concerning the girl's parentage in this version)is perhaps one of the most ill advised plot developments ever written. One minute he hardly knows her, the next they are big buddies. He even gives up smoking for chrissakes! Stallone's Carter is a far more sensitive man that Caine's and ultimately this is what makes the film so pedestrian. He has gone back home more in an attempt to fix the broken pieces of his own life, rather than in search of vengeance. The porno movie elements lack the genuine unpleasantness of the original, the movie balks at any realistic violence in favour of a more dumbass hollywood approach where grown men can fight for twenty minutes without collapsing from exhaustion. and what is all this rubbish about 'taking things to the next level'? This may be abit of a hastily written review, but words cannot express how crap this film is, especially when viewed in the light of the superior original. Im no film purist, (i genuinely think Money Train is a good film) but even without the memory of Hodge's film, Get Carter 2000 fails to convince. Having said that, the beefed up score (though underused) is a treat, and the title sequence on the train at the beginning is great. There is perverse pleasure to be taken in how dreadful this whole movie is, but i've seen grittier episodes of Airwolf than this.