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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

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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It's the insipid dialogue and inane direction that sets this film on a rocky path.

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Fraught with too many loose ends and a glaring lack of focus.

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09/30/01
Andrew Manning
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Bob Grimm
Bob Grimm
Sacramento News & Review

How does a numbing mishmash of a movie like this get made?

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01/01/00
Bob Thomas
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07/19/01
Brian Webster
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01/01/00
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor
Salon.com

[Stallone] has to wade through way too many scenes in which show-offy camera work turns him upside down or flashes lights at him or divides him up into three screens.

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01/01/00
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Stylishly directed by Stephen Kay, the new Carter isn't half as bad as it could have been.

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01/01/00
Chris Vognar
Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News
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The original Get Carter (1971) is better, but this is quite watchable as far as modern-era remakes go.

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02/16/06
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
FulvueDrive-in.com

A few gem scenes buried in the rubble.

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03/08/02
Chuck Rudolph
Chuck Rudolph
Matinee Magazine

Get Carter is a movie conceived around a handful of cool scenes.

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01/01/00
Dan Fazio
Dan Fazio
Citysearch

This is a remake of an early-'70s British flick of the same name starring Michael Caine, a great movie that reeked of despair and emptiness. This one is just damp and mildewy.

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01/01/00
Dave White
Dave White
IFilm

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.

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02/07/01
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