AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

A_Different_Drummer Hollywood does not owe Sly Stallone very much. And chances are the feeling is mutual.With his "expendables" franchise, Sly was more or less telling his fans that he has minimal respect for them, that decades of stardom have taught him that filmgoers prefer pyrotechnics and fluff to real drama.And maybe he was right.But this production, coming at that particular stage of his career, is anything but fluff. The script is tight. Ditto the casting, ditto the acting. Sly slowly but surely takes hold of the viewer's focus and retains it, not so much for what he does, but for what his character is "capable" of doing. Big difference.Seen it a few times. It holds up nicely.

videorama-759-859391 I'll keep this short and sweet. First off, Sly, does not deserve a Razzie for this. It's a great comeback, after his bestest in 98's Copland, and he's very good in this role, a trifle menacing, yes. In fact I'd rather watch Sly than Caine, who ironically plays a shady villain in this. Caine's dull expressions and deadpan looks he brought to the Carter role, though indeed, he was much more menacing, just somehow created a real dullness, where Stallone adds a lot of flare to the role, (the actors business) someone you don't want double cross, one guy, so lucky for having Carter spare him, was a moment I found gruelingly tense. Again it's family vengeance for Jack Carter, who leans on people who are late with their payments by use of physical force. One term to describe these heavies are called Shylocks. Stallone is given great dialogue, and has some great acting support from Miranda Richardson, very strong, Caine, character actor, John Mcginley as one of Sly's own, and another baddie Mickey Rourke, no longer a pretty face. He's given some great dialogue too. Jack who's brother was caught up in some dirty dealings involving prostitution and making sex tapes, his need to get to the bottom of this really grows, especially when his niece (Rachel Leigh Cook-very good) is caught up in it. Then he really steams. Here's a guy who's not gonna stop until he finds his man, where he doesn't like outside interruptions, like from Mcginley who he pummels the s..t out of in an elevator, to the racey tune of an instrumental "Jingle Bells". Again here's a livelier remake I like better than the original, which some great action sequences, including a thrilling car chase, hey, but what's a Sly movie without action.

classicsoncall I guess my disadvantage here is in not seeing the original film. With that in mind, I noticed a darker, though not as expressive Sylvester Stallone parlay his Carter character into a revenge machine out to get the goons who murdered his brother. Unlike John Rambo, who was minding his own business (at least in the first film) when his buttons were pushed, this incarnation is looking for trouble right from the get go. Though he might have had a clever one liner or two, I didn't get any sense of charisma from Jack Carter, and you have to wonder if the problem with the character was with Stallone's interpretation or the director's. So I guess that's why you had all the fancy camera work, slick angles and stylized editing, especially in the second half where it looked like the original picture might have transitioned into something else. I liked John McGinley as Connie-Conna-Wanna-Do-Da-Day, and Mickey Rourke, already beefing up for "The Wrestler". Some decent fight action and car chase stuff here, but you've probably seen it before. But it's not so bad I wouldn't say stay away to anyone other than Michael Caine.

sol ***SPOILERS*** It's when Jack Carter, Sylvester "Sly" Stallone, got the news that his kid brother Richie, Mike Cook, was killed in a drunken car accident he decided to get the first plane out of Las Vages to Seattle and check things out. Being the top head cracker for the Vages Mob Carter used his extraordinary talents of cracking heads as well as breaking bones to uncover the true reasons behind Richie's unfortunate accident. You see Richie being a good church going family man didn't drink and drive and as Carter sees it the drinking that he did that lead to his death was strictly involuntary.Brutal and at times senseless crime revenge movie with Stallone as Jack Carter out to get his brother's killers where he ends up breaking every law in the books including cold blooded murder, in one case in front of about 100 eye witnesses, yet he seems at the same time totally immune with no one in the Seattle Police Department bothering to take the time to arrest him.As we soon find out the reason that Richie was murdered is that his teenage daughter Doreen, Rachael Leigh Cook, was picked by some of mob boss and porn connoisseur Cyrus Paice, Mickey Rourke, boys from a local nightclub and after getting her both drugged and drunk brutally raping her. With Richie having the evidence of Paice's men crime, a secretly recorded DVD, he was kidnapped beaten drenched with cheap booze and driven off the highway to his death on Cyrus orders. Carter determined to avenge Richie's murder then goes to a party thrown by Cyrus and after a brutal beating that Cyrus gave him evened the score by later himself working Cyrus over and blowing his brains out! All that right in front of some dozens of shocked party goers who didn't not only bother to call the police or come to Cyrus' aid, shads of the 1964 Kiddy Genovease murder, but even come forward to identify Carter as Cryus' murderer! ***SPOILERS****But as Carter intended to do in the first place he got the job done by finally finding out who really had ordered his kid brother's murder and as it turned out it wasn't Cyrus at all. But it was the person-the Porno King of Seattle-who had the most to lose if that DVD was made public and in the end in what you would call a Carter VRS Carter confrontation it was Jack Carter, the 2000 version, who prevailed. Besides the awful lighting in the movie where you couldn't at times tell who was who and what was what the most weirdest thing going for "Get Carter" was Stallone's suite paths as well as white shirt & ties. Stallone's clothes were far more indestructible then he, as Jack Carter, was in the movie. They never get dirty or wrinkled or even wet with all the rain there was at the time in Seattle. And even more astounding they never for once needed to be dry leaned or pressed looking in all the scenes that they were in the movie worn by Sylvester "Sly" Stallone as if they just came off the rack! Sylvester "Sly" Stallone's real life brother Frank has a cameo role in the movie as one of the mourners at Richie Carter's funeral.