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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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Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
07/19/01
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

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

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
01/01/00
Bob Thomas
Bob Thomas
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle
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01/01/00
Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt
Blunt Review

Maybe it's all the rain and leaden skies, but instead of conjuring up the rueful mood it's after, the film mostly just plays dark, wet, and heavy.

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01/01/00
Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe
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06/05/02
Dwayne E. Leslie
Dwayne E. Leslie
Boxoffice Magazine

The result is Get Carter for dummies, the biggest ones being those who pay to see it. It's also an incoherent, irredeemable mess.

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01/01/00
Mark Caro
Mark Caro
Chicago Tribune
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Muito falatório e pouca ação.

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05/31/02
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

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.

Full Review Source: Cinemaphile.org | comment Comment
02/07/01
David Keyes
David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org

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

Full Review Source: Citysearch | comment Comment
01/01/00
Dan Fazio
Dan Fazio
Citysearch

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

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Chris Vognar
Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News
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Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Director Stephen Kay obviously spent an inordinate amount of time studying The Limey ... but he learned all the wrong lessons.

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Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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Little more than a shallow retread of many, many movies gone by.

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Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

...not really a bad crime thriller so much as it is a routine one.

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01/01/00
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

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

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
01/01/00
E! Online

Note to Stallone: Stop making movies!

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
10/10/01
Scott Weinberg
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