Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

SnoopyStyle Jack Carter (Sylvester Stallone) is a Las Vegas mob casino collector. He returns to Seattle for his brother Richie's funeral. Jack is suspicious and starts investigating. Richie's wife Gloria (Miranda Richardson) and daughter Doreen (Rachael Leigh Cook) are not close to Jack. Richie ran Cliff Brumby (Michael Caine)'s club. Cliff claims that the mysterious Geraldine (Rhona Mitra) is Richie's mistress. Jack finds bottom feeder Cyrus Paice (Mickey Rourke) now as a local porn king working for wealthy Jeremy Kinnear (Alan Cumming). Meanwhile Jack's boss back in Vegas is looking for him.Sly tries to be interesting and gritty. It's laying down some heavy style with limited success. The plot doesn't really move. There is a little bit of fun with Sly going up against Mickey Rourke. It would be better to give more drive to Jack's mission. It needs something that could raise the stakes like kidnapping Doreen. This needs to have a mission other than just investigating Richie's death. If that's all there is, then he should start breaking fingers and busting heads. It also means that he could drop the case at any time. This is a scatter shoot of villains and random dark stylistic choices.

callanvass Jack Carter is a mob enforcer in Las Vegas and heads back to Seattle for a funeral of his brother Richie, who has died under mysterious circumstances. The window of Richie's, Gloria isn't exactly thrilled to have Jack back into the fold for bailing on them for five years, but Jack gets on well with Gloria's daughter Doreen. Jack is willing to do whatever it takes to uncover the truth of Richie's abrupt death. The IMDb rating is about right for this one. I've never seen the original with Michael Caine, can't really compare the two. It's full of flash, glitz, grungy rock music, and style, but it lacks punch. I wasn't satisfied with Richie's story. We don't get enough background on the guy to fully care about why he died. It just felt kinda there, along with everything else in this movie. I'll give it this much, its slick, but it is rather easy to figure out. It's just cookie-cutter. There isn't a ton of action, but we do get a few dandies. A couple of car chases highlight this film and Stallone and Rourke have a nifty scrap as well, if a little one-sided. Jack Carter's reconciliation storyline with his family should have been much more riveting than it was. I should have seen a ton of emotion from a vulnerable family, but I didn't see a lot of it. Stallone's storyline with Rachel Leigh Cook is one of the most interesting things in this film and I wish we saw more of it. It could have elevated this movie a bit. The characters are so poorly developed. Sly is really good as Jack Carter. He's totally bad-ass and enjoyably tough. The sunglasses were a nice touch. He conveys his emotions perfectly. He has one great emotional scene as well. I wouldn't have messed with this guy. It just sucks that Stallone accepted quite a few projects that didn't deserve a man of his talents. When he has enough to work with, he's proved what he can do. Cook is solid as the daughter, I wish there was more of her. Michael Caine is wasted in a thankless role, but he adds pizazz to a throwaway part. Mitra is poor. Mickey Rourke is clearly trying to cash a quick check. Alan Cumming steals some scenes as a weasel. The ending is completely anticlimactic, void of any emotionFinal Thoughts: This felt otiose to me. I was never really bored, but I wasn't all that entertained either. Action fans will be disappointed by the lack of action, but fellow Stallone fans will love his performance. Check it out on a gloomy day and then forget it even exists. It's that type of film5/10

zjerunk A bad film made worse. Why on earth do that. Michael Caine, who I love, did the original for the money. He was riding the crest of the wave after Ipcress File, etc. Nevertheless, a good actor can't change a bad script, plot or idea. In his early days he was, like most, a mediocre actor with marketable looks, but he got better with age.Sylvester Stallone plays his alter egos, either Rambo or Rocky. Putting him in a bad story, poorly scripted, with worse casting you get Rambo in a suit and a bad movie. Sly never really improved. He endured. Mickey Rourke was was more notable, but he too always plays Mickey.They should have burned the script for Get Carter after the original and put everyone associated with it in a witness relocation program so things like this don't happen again.

Dark Jedi This movie is a good example of why, in my opinion, the official ratings by on Rotten Tomatoes, made by the so called (professional) critics, are generally worthless. Currently this movie has a rating of 12% according to Rotten Tomatoes which, of course, will lead everyone not aware of how crappy their system actually is to believe that the film is utter crap and that is really utter crap.This movie is nothing fantastic. It would even qualify as a B-flick, but it is not really bad. It is a nice enough action/thriller flick to kill an evening with without really getting disappointed. I have not seen the original one so I am not pre-conditioned against this movie which perhaps helps.Sylvester Stallone does a quite acceptable performance in the role of the silent and threatening mob enforcer. He plays as you would expect him to do and if you do not like Stallone, well then there is not much to do about it. Personally I think he has his style and I like it and do not really want him to change it just because some critics find it "lacking".The movie itself and the story is also fairly okay. Again nothing fantastic or particularly innovative but good enough. It has its ups and downs though. Especially in terms of pacing which is a bit uneven. Sure, not everything can be car chases or fist fights but when it slows down it really slows down. Even though it is a gangster/action/thriller movie it is not overly violent. As a matter of fact it is fairly tame in the sense that, as soon as someone actually gets killed this happens off the scene and is left to the viewer's imagination. A bit silly if you ask me but it did not really bother me too much either so.Close to the end the director indulges himself in some very annoying psychedelic flickering scenes, presumably to hide some of the violence in the final fighting between Stallone and the bad guy. That did bother me. I really do not like such epilepsy inducing nonsense. Not that I have epilepsy but it still strains my eyes and really bother me.Anyway, it was a decent enough movie and certainly good enough to get, at least, an average rating.