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Hard to follow ...

posted 15 years ago by mloessel
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A remake or not this movie was difficult to follow. Stallone plays a real tough guy who doesn't stop until he gets the job done. He plays a mob inforcer very convincingly. Anyone he incounters has to take him seriously. I've read stories on folks living the mob life and they can be very gentle but don't cross them. In the scene with Alan Cumming, who plays the computer mogul Kinnear, Stallone confronts him on a members only golf course. Stallone 'convinces' Cumming to take a ride on a golf cart to discuss what Cumming (Kinnear) knows about the death of Stallone's (Carter) brother. Kinnear doesn't give Stallone much information but Stallone's ability to intimidate works.
The only criticism is the movie was hard to follow because of what I found to be choppy editing. Stallone is very resilient and Rourke (Paice) is gritty as a local boss (mob) who operates a prostitution business.
Clean up the editiing and I believe 'Get Carter' would've done better at the box office.

[–] orr_keith 15 years ago

I just watched it and I still dont know what the hell happened, his brother was killed because there was a video of some guy raping his daughter?

I really have no idea what the film was about, really bad editing.
Good film but the editing was bad and so was the soundtrack, played off more as a comedy with the music.

[–] lferrigon-1 15 years ago

From what I gather, Carter's brother after getting the DVD decided to call the police to have the bastards arrested and they got wind of it and killed him.

As for Carter, when he refers to Doreen as his daughter, I thought it was a misstatement on his part but then seeing it again, I am not so sure.

In any event, Carter needed to avenge his brother and Doreen which he did.