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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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Bob Grimm

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Todd McCarthy

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Michael Dequina

Stylized visuals add some spice, but they cannot overcome the formulaic and obvious screenplay, which is of no help to a film that is structured as a mystery.

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Chuck O'Leary

The original Get Carter (1971) is better, but this is quite watchable as far as modern-era remakes go.

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James Sanford

Is it a zombie coming to alert us it's time to start shopping for a Halloween costume? No, it's just our old friend Sylvester Stallone, sleepwalking his way through a stillborn crime drama that belongs in a morgue, not in a movie theater.

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Dwayne E. Leslie

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Pablo Villaca

Muito falatório e pouca ação.

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Chuck Rudolph

A few gem scenes buried in the rubble.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 08 2002 12:07 AM

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Jeremiah Kipp

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 27 2002 08:10 AM

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Rob Vaux

Get Carter ultimately lacks the courage of its convictions: it can't stand to be thought of as the pulp it so clearly is.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 24 2001 01:48 PM

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3/10

Scott Weinberg

Note to Stallone: Stop making movies!

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 10 2001 04:09 PM

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Andrew Manning

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Sep., 30 2001 04:32 PM

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Brian Webster

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Ross Anthony

slow moving

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