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Summary: A BRIT-CLASSIC!
Review: This movie is shure to be a Brit-classic. The movie is about Jack Carter who travels to his brother and finds him dead. Jack is now on a mission, to find who killed him. Michael Caine is Jack Carter a english gangster who stops at nothing to find out who killed his brother. When i saw this movie I had to think about it a while before I could give it 5 stars. A GREAT FILM!
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Summary: Sly Stallone is a beautiful example of Hoof in Mouth disease
Review: Just the style, Mam. No Stallone. No L.A. And No Happy American Ending.
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Summary: DEATH WISH
Review: British director Mike Hodges's GET CARTER is a wonderful little pearl for the amateur of discoveries. Everything in this movie seems new, even for a 1971 movie. The action takes place in Newcastle, England which is not the most photographed city in movie history, the characters are english mobsters, a corporation whose roots are rather italian, colombian or american. And, furthermore, Mike Hodges has written and created on screen a certain number of scenes worthy to stay in our memories. Take for instance the scene involving Michaël Caine calling in London a Britt Ekland almost naked in her bed. As the dialogs become more and more suggestive, Michaël Caine is filmed behind the moving rocking-chair of his lodger - a woman with, let's say, a certain charm -. The scene is memorable and has been the ideal target of various censors. The last third of GET CARTER is going to remind you of another jewel of the british cinema - Robert Fuest's THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES - as Michaël Caine is slowly eliminating the murderers of his brother. I also liked the secondary roles, very well written and played : Kinnear, the local mobster, is terrifying even without a gun and Eric's glasses and death will haunt your memory for quite a long time. And naturally there is Michaël Caine in one of his best performances ever. The copy is perfect, you can watch GET CARTER with only the musical score on or with Mike Hodges's commentary, there are english and french subtitles, a trailer and a very incomplete filmography of Michaël Caine. A DVD for your library.
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Summary: The Original and Still the Best.
Review: Sly's "Get Carter" may be an above average remake, but it is still no match to the original Cockney Classic. Michael Caine traded in his Nice guy-Working class Persona for a Mean guy-Working class Persona that works even better. The Story is Timeless and the Execution is Impecable. A Near-Perfect Film. (i can't say it's perfect, one day someone may top it.. not likely) If you find this film a bit tough for you, cheak out Caine in "The Italian Job".
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Summary: The art of cinema
Review: It is a very rare emotion you feel just before the end of this film. Cinema is an art of evanescence, true, but an evanescence fixed like Rimbaud's vertigos. The inspired cinema artist is a man with a camera, with or without certain technical resources, eked out by Assheton Gorton's set dressing on the level of a Kienholz. A film of high art for admirers of Tom Wesselmann and e.e. cummings and Roy Lichtenstein and The Longest Day, to which homage is paid with a rooftop shot.
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Summary: Get this DVD
Review: Ahh! Near perfect film, and a very good DVD. This is a revelation..Michael Caine, an actor I love to hate, is perfect as an avenging devil, and this is British grit at its best. Be surprised as Carter behaves badly, be amazed that this is the director's first feature, then sit back and watch it again to catch the nuances you missed the first time around....then listen to the director's neat commentary...then enjoy the isolated musical score. A great package at a good price. Highly recommended viewing.
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Summary: A brilliant, chilling performance by Michael Caine
Review: Recently for reasons which could only make sense to a Hollywood moneyman, this superb British film was remade with -- this seems hard to believe -- Sylvester Stallone in the title role. They really should not have bothered, because the original with Michael Caine in the lead could not be improved upon. Caine gives one of the most powerfully effective performances of his long film career as a mobster pursuing a deadly trail of vengeance. It is a veritable textbook of how to portray menace and obsession with chilling understatement. The new DVD-version features a commentary track by director Mike Hodges and cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky with added material from Caine himself, explaining how the film was made and the decision process behind much of which was shown. Altogether, this is an excellent presentation.
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Summary: great film
Review: Get Carter should not be missed by any one loving noir or gangster films. It is an absolute masterpiece of the genre, of any genre. Michael Caine as always delivers a pitch perfect performance. One of the truest actors ever. The quality of the DVD is also very good.
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Summary: Dee-dee.... dah-dah.... dee-dee.... dee.... dah-dah....
Review: 'Get Carter' is very, very British and very, very 70s, and it couldn't possibly be made today, despite Sylvester Stallone's unwise attempt to do so. Caine plays Carter with ice-cold water running through his veins, and the bleak Newcastle setting compliments the hard, merciless atmosphere of a period that gave us 'A Clockwork Orange' and 'Straw Dogs'. It's less violent than the latter, and Carter, although doomed, has a twisted moral core. But it's still strong stuff, and the ending is also very 70's in that it's not very happy, not that 'Get Carter' is a particularly happy film anyway. Whilst it was a cult hit at the time, and languished in obscurity in the 80s, a spate of television repeats and a shift in the zeitgeist made it the ne plus ultra of urban chic in the mid-90s, and it's now regarded as something of a classic. It's also worth checking out the contemporary 'Villain', a less-famous (for good reason - it isn't very good) film starring Richard Burton, for an example of how badly it could have gone. It's also one of the most misquoted films ever ('You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me, it's a full time job'), and Michael Caine justifies 'The Swarm', 'Jaws IV' and 'The Holcroft Covenant' with his performance. Special note must be made of Harold Budd's music, in particular the title track, a simple melody that has been an inspiration to ambient musicians ever since, and the soundtrack is a cult favourite. Thankfully, some care has been put into the DVD - there are audio commentaries and a couple of amusingly old-fashioned trailers. At one point Carter transforms a man into a dummy and throws him from a multi-storey car park, revealing hitherto-unknown supernatural powers. The same car park is on the verge of demolition today, but may become a listed building because of the film. This, and an tide of awful modern gangster films, is its legacy.
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Summary: Seminal post-mod UK thriller.
Review: Mike Hodges' Get Carter is a bleak and bitter revenge thriller that has been little seen in the U.S since it's release in 1971. It's humourless tone and grim conclusion prevent it from being embraced by larger audiences, but for the more demanding viewer these are the very features that make it such a memorable delight. Michael Caine gives a solid performance as the title character Jack Carter, a London-based criminal out to seek revenge for the murder of his brother in Newcastle. The film should be applauded for not softening the Carter character in an attempt to make him more appetizing to the viewer. We may think Carter is cool but there is little here on display for us to ever mistake him for a hero.
Apart from it's startling realism, other memorable aspects of the film are composer Roy Budd's proto-Acid Jazz score and the flamboyant post-hippie threads sported by Caine and co. A film so good that you are almost willing to forgive Caine for the many terrible films he has appeared in since.
The disc contains some wonderfully dated theatrical trailers and an audio commentary from Caine, Hodges and the cinematographer.
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