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An overlooked classic
"Get Carter" is one of the original, and definitely one of the best, modern gangster films. There would be no "The Long Good Friday", "Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels" or "Snatch" without this movie. Michael Caine as Jack Carter is the first bad guy in film history that you want to root for, but feel bad because he's such an evil person. The dialogue is razor-sharp, the sets and cinematography are as dreary as the Northern England location, and the last 30 minutes of the movie, especially the ending, will leave you with the need to stand in the sun for a long time. You'll understand why after you watch it. And, most importantly, AVOID THE REMAKE AT ALL COSTS!

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I'm Excited to get "Get Carter" on DVD!
It's great news to finally be able to get "Get Carter" on DVD. Get Carter is an incredible film, one of the best of 1970's, that stars Michael Caine as "Carter" in probably his greatest performance, and is directed by Mike Hodges, which is his greatest film as well. This film may be one of the more brutally violent films that has ever been made, even by today's standards, which is amazing considering that it was made 30 years ago. It's about a mob henchman that goes on a quest for revenge when his brother is killed under suspicious circumstances. On his journey Carter encounters plenty of sex and violence. There are many memorable scenes in this movie including one of the most raw, brutal killing scenes that I have ever scene in which he stabs a former friend whom he suspects betrayed him. This movie is action packed, but not the mindless, loud, explosion-filled action of today's movies. The violence is both shocking and disturbing, however, there's a heavy price to pay. This movie will leave you dazed after finishing viewing. I highly recommend this movie to everyone with even a casual interest in great films, and is a must own for DVD collectors.

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Mike Hodges lean, mean anti-hero epic.
This is the film where young, cool-head cockney actor Michael Caine "made his bones" by mercilously breaking some. Jack Carter is Limey-Mafia enforcer out for vengeance in a grim noir film that cuts no slack on the so-called "glamour of evil". Not a single character in the fine ensmeble cast is spared "poena damni" as either a loser or(brutally killed)lost soul. This is Mike Hodges'(CROUPIER)existential epic about bottom-feeders of British low-life gangster demi-monde. The movie works because Caine is consummate,unapologetic anti-hero who takes us on his cheap sex; cheaper-drugs; rife with punk-thug violence,odyssey. His unholy grail is "'I the Jury!'" JUSTICE"...and its ultimate cost in his own dehumanization. Jack Carter's violent journey to oblivion is "proof" of poet Blake's dictum:THEY BECOME LIKE THAT WHICH THEY BEHOLD...YET AMAZING IN STENGTH or HOWLING IN DREAD AND PAIN.

Before PM amorality became fashionable, GET CARTER presented cinematic view-to-a-kill about how a brave man...who perhaps could have been honorable and heroic. Caine shows how easy it is to sell one's soul for a moment of what the world calls TRIUMPH. This isn't a pleasant movie to watch. But--unlike the bogus remake with Sly Stalone--Caine asks no sympathy for Jack Carter. With jolting portrayal of remorselessness in evil,he redeems a film "about an irredeemable man". Entertaining, no.Illuminating? Yes...(4 & 1/2 stars)