2000 Directed by Stephen T. Kay
Remake of the British classic. Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible.
Get Carter - La Loi du milieu
“I’m Jack Carter and you really don’t want to know me.”
The man speaks the straight true-true.
Razzies 2001
Nominee - Worst Actor
Sylvester Stallone
Nominee - Worst Remake or Sequel
Another somewhat overlooked Stallone feature that unreasonably earned yet more Razzie disrespect for the stable Stallion. It's raw eggs and green ham when it comes to villains, molls, and henchmen. I loved Mickey Rourke as a shady, enterprising online pornographer. He's still in beefcake boxer mode here and is fitly imposing when he knocks Sly down and around. Far less beefy--but equally hammy--is Alan Cumming as an affluenza dot.com mogul, habitually rubbing Carter the wrong way. Cumming has one of the most punchable shitgrins in cinema.
Miranda Richardson, Rhona Mitra, Gretchen Moll, and Rachel Leigh Cook play the various women in Carter's complicated mob life. Cook…
There are some films that not only don't need to be remade, but fundamentally shouldn't be. Get Carter is one of them. Mike Hodges' 1971 British gangster thriller is, even today, a triumph of hard boiled crime cinema and perhaps one of the greatest British films of all time. Stephen Kay's 2000 remake is neither British, hard boiled nor a triumph - in fact by distancing itself so enormously from everything that made the original a classic, it becomes abjectly the opposite; a bland, rote, monosyllabic generic Hollywood crime flick with none of the danger, wit, charm or grit the original film possessed. It is, put simply, a pointless exercise.
You know the point it became clear that was true?…
The beggining of the 2000's were not good for Sly. Some flashy editing and camera angles, a couple of car chases, a couple of cool tough guy scenes and a semi-good performance by Sly can't save this boring and sometimes maddening remake. Everyone looks bored and no wonder. Even the original Carter pops up and it's all for nothing. Whoever thought to cast Alan Cummings as a bad guy against Stallone needs electroshock treatment. I always compare this movie to a brand new Corvette. Without a motor.
Drew myself a short straw and this is my review for Andy Summers "Michael Caine’s 80th Birthday List" ( boxd.it/4GQM )
Having never seen the original I not only had no clue what this was about but could also view it through unbiased eyes.
Sylvester Stallone plays Jack Carter, a kind of debt collector/enforcer for some faceless mob boss in Las Vegas. Jacks Brother dies in a car accident so he returns to his home town to look into what happened.
His technique to getting people to give him info is basically just to threaten them. Be they a young girl, an old man or a scumbag...he just threatens to hurt them. Doesn't trust anyone and comes across as a…
Well it's better than I remember it being, but it's nowhere near the original. I saw this in theatres and recall not being impressed with it. I wanted to give it another try because a) it's a remake of one of my favourite movies and b) Rachael Leigh Cook.
I think the stylistic flourishes were getting to be a little too much by the end and I still find the story to not really be engaging, and a little confusing at times (but I was tired while watching). But like I said, I got into it by the end. So it's not as bad as I thought. Yay!! Still bugs me that big, bad ass Carter gets his but kicked so easily by Mickey Rourke though. That was disappointing.
the older i got, the smarter my teachers became (ally carter)
sly ain’t getting to be carter the way caine was.
Sylvester Stallone on a revenge trail to find those responsible for his brother’s death, that would have been an acceptable action movie in itself. Yet there was a problem when it came out back in 2000 : this movie was the remake of a classic. Get Carter, made in 1971, was probably one of the best british crime thriller ever released and was for certain Michael Caine’s best ever part. Now, of course Stallone’s movie had to stand up to comparisons to the famous predecessors and it does not do so very well. The only highlight has to be Michael Caine who accepted to appear in the remake as a sign to his friendship with Stallone. Fittingly he plays the bad guy here. In hindsight, Get Carter in its 2000 version is an average action movie featuring a few good car chases, a few good fights but it pales next to the original. 5.7/10
i was so excited to see Sylvester Stallone and Miranda Richardson work together. fuck it
This is a remake of the Michael Cain's classic film of the same name. This time round the title character is played by Sylvester Stallone. The film has been updated from the 70's to the 00's.
This isn't a great film but it's kind of fun Stallone has a number of great one liners and shows his physicality in fight scenes. The scenes that really stand out to me is between Stallone and Rourke who plays the villian of sorts. (Mickey Rourke has stated that it was Stallone that got him to the in the movie he hadn't worked in a while and it provided him the opportunity to work and get paid)
The other scenes I like are between…
Well this has been the pits of my Sylvester Stallone Marathon.
This movie is absolute garbage. From a nonsensical storyline to a random grab bag of actors, this movie is trying to be more hip than it has the license to be. It captures that early 2000s music video style of editing that ran rampant in Blockbuster films. It's a remake of an old Michael Caine film and he even shows up for this remake.
Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Miranda Richardson, Mickey Rourke, Rhona Mitra, John c McGinley, Alan Cumming... Such a random grab bag of actors. Everybody's here doing their own thing and there's not much chemistry. If anything the only redemptive scenes are between Stallone and Rachael Leigh Cook as his niece.
The action is not that great. Several beat down scenes with minimal choreography. Sloppy car chases. At least Stallone looks pretty cool. Just not a whole lot of depth to the storyline or his character.
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