Gritty, british noir at its best ! Caine is brilliant, as the scoundrel you love to hate, respect and understand. A must see !!!!!!

Cain is a British Sweet Sweetback.

Worst case of going in with the wrong expectations of a film for me - I don't really think I can rate it fairly. I was looking to get entertained by a rough revenge flick, but, while rough, this is certainly a different beast altogether. Also very disturbing and weird, for me being only 25 and from a different era, the way all women were portrayed and treated in the film. In conclusion: interesting, well-shot however unrelentingly bleak, confusing and, for my expectations, disappointing.

Michael Caine is a total bastard in this, although wonderfully restrained for much of the running time...it just makes him seem more ferocious when he starts killing people. Kind of a slow pace, but it excels at establishing such a grimy mood that it's never boring before the payoff comes.

Nihilistic but mostly entertaining revenge thriller. I got a really strong Peckinpah vibe from it. Anyone who reads my crappy little reviews knows I'm not a Peckinpah fan, and the same kind of things rubbed me the wrong way in this case. While I don't entirely disagree with this sort of worldview, I just don't get off on seeing it in the movies. Still, there are fun elements, mostly in the thriller aspects as Caine gets himself into and out of sticky situations.

A very, very bleak movie. It's dark and grimy, filled with rough characters and ugly plot twists. It's interesting to see Michael Caine take on this role, and he definitely makes it work. The plot gets a bit convoluted at times, but not so much that one couldn't still follow the main arc that's playing out.

Get Carter is a great revenge film. It is gritty, raw, and rough around the edges. The morals of the characters including Jack Carter are as crooked as their English teeth. I love how Caine travels from London to the hard working-class streets of Newcastle. You can almost smell the cigarette smoke and taste the scotch. I must admit that the clues that lead Caine to figure out were a little convoluted at times but it all came together in the end. This film allows a great look into 70's England.

Cool and classy. With a lot of that peculiar British sense of humor.

566

A superb gritty English crime thriller.

Caine is a great vigilante, but the film meanders in the great tradition of British gangster films from the period: the style is not stylish and the substance unsubstantial.

not interesting, eventful, and hardly even watchable. it has a good premise, a couple pieces here and there are ok, but the vast majority of this movie is just plain boring. i don't understand how this movie has received so much acclaim.

83.500

A very cold and brutal film, Michael Caine's character revenge goes places where I think most revenge films are afraid to go. By the end of it, it's kinda hard to root for him as he clearly crosses the line from anti-hero to a full blown villain. I found myself drawn into it despite how vile Carter gets, and the movie is 70's and British as fuck, which is always a great thing.

Caine is great and it's a nicely plotted crime thriller, but there's nothing all that sexy about it (except Britt Eklund's tits) so while I enjoyed it, I hardly found it enthralling. Still, it's fun watching every single motherfucker in the movie getting owned, often cruelly.

#557

A slog at times, but it's worth a watch because there's some really imaginative scenes and camera work at different points in the movie.

Great if only because of Micheal Caine's portrayal of a total bastard. There are no good guys in this film, Carter's efforts are anything but likable and I suppose that was the point. It's to the credit of his characterization that I was effectively cheering in the end. Otherwise, the film is difficult to get into and probably wouldn't be worth a re-watch.

The manliest movie with Michael Caine I have seen so far.

Caine may look plenty cool dishing out personal justice, but the movie itself is a by-the-numbers revenge drama. There's no real personality to it, just a body count with some Bondian sexual exploits to break things up. There's plenty to debate about the sadism of the film being portrayed as heroic, or, more accurately, without much of a thought at all, but the worst sin is that it's flat-out boring.

Michael Caine is like a rock. He has about as many expressions and his character is at least as hard as one. Skillful directing.

"A great tradition returns: The Gangster Movie" And how!

solid