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Get Carter

1971
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
1h 52m
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Rated 25 Nov 2013
82
91st
The youtube preview on the films page is a frozen image of a naked Michael Caine holding a shotgun with an old woman in the background. So, yes, I loved this movie.
Rated 17 Dec 2006
70
39th
Michael Caine is one stone cold motherfucker in this. His character and his performance alone are reason enough to see the film. Which is not to say that the rest of the film isn't good, because it is. I couldn't get into it in a big way, though. Most movies about crime are like water off a duck's back for me lately. I enjoy them while I'm watching them, but few of them linger in my mind after they're finished.
Rated 23 Oct 2012
70
55th
Caine is utterly badass as the criminal scumbag who ruthlessly disposes of other criminal scumbags. Unfortunately, apart from a few interesting scenes and good (haunting) use of audio, there is not thát much to write home about. Caine's search for answers takes a while to get going and I wasn't terribly interested in knowing which gangster told what other gangster to do something to a different gangster.
Rated 30 Sep 2008
80
78th
Caine is fantastic as a brutal and pitiless gangster out to solve his brother's murder. Sleek, stylish, and gritty - the film holds up pretty well, at least compared to the goofier "Italian Job"
Rated 13 Jun 2018
80
84th
Grim, gritty, brutal, sleazy and peopled with an assortment of deeply unpleasant characters. It doesn't show the city where I live in a particularly positive light either. But it's good, driven by a performance by Caine at his very best, and tidy direction by Hodges, Not an easy film to get into, but worth sticking with.
Rated 16 May 2011
63
19th
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 dull. I don't understand how this movie has received so much acclaim.
Rated 13 Feb 2012
65
38th
When one looks at the women that are sexualized in this film, it suddenly dawns why James Bond was so obsessed with foreign beauties.
Rated 17 May 2013
75
79th
What I like about this film is the no nonsense dialogue, the raymond chandler crime story-like narrative and Michael Caine. What I didn't like was that the must expected "she was only 16 old" line that they repeat endlessly in the The Trip isn't from this film. (EDIT) Apparently the line from The Trip is made up. Such a disappointment.
Rated 14 Mar 2009
6
70th
Let it never be said that 1970s Michael Caine is not badass.
Rated 22 Aug 2018
93
69th
As mean as the proverbial junkyard dog and as moody, uncompromising and cool as Michael Caine's vengeance-driven character. Hodges directs this vicious British crime drama with an assurance that still holds up today, and with Caine on top form too, it was guaranteed that Get Carter would go down as one of the best examples of its genre.
Rated 25 Apr 2014
71
84th
Love me some gritty 70's Caine. Pacing is not for everyone, but the payoff was definitely worth the wait for me.
Rated 04 Dec 2017
90
95th
Mike Hodges' 1971 masterpiece is so affecting simply because of two things: gritty direction and Caine spitting fire.
Rated 30 Jul 2014
61
18th
An overdose of sadistic revenge.
Rated 12 Dec 2010
76
56th
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.
Rated 10 Apr 2010
85
71st
Cain is a British Sweet Sweetback.
Rated 10 Jul 2012
70
66th
Not my all-time favorite british gangster flick, but it's still a must-see classic! Get Carter doesn't follow the usual concepts of good and evil, they are many shades of grey and debauchery in this dreary slum. Even the hero of the movie is a brutal son of a bitch. Goddamn was Caine sexy back then though, in a horrible misogynistic bastard kind of way. Horrible morals, great film...
Rated 30 Jan 2016
60
26th
Nicely done in its building of tension through the film. Hodges also seems confident with his camera--lots of still shots, refusing to move the camera just because, but rather out of need. This stillness of the frame creates this tension, alongside Caine's relative quiet and calm. Thematically, the film seems to be a meditation on reaping and sowing, on how violence begets violence. I am troubled by the casual mix of sex and violence...endemic to early 70s filmmaking in reaction to Hayes code.
Rated 06 Aug 2013
62
32nd
I wasn't too impressed with this - while it is nihilistic, nasty and grim, much of it feels like lost potential. It starts off great, and the ending is good too, but the middle third of the film just drags - Michael Caine really holds the film together with his performance but it feels as if we barely get to know anyone, especially not him. You can see the influence it had on many films but for me it's maybe too detached for me to really get into it.
Rated 20 Dec 2012
60
52nd
Chandleresque (ie confusing) crime drama with a dark streak of nihilism. Caine rampages around the industrial landscapes of NE England, terrorising the local lowlifes and generally being a cruel shit. The most effective parts come in the first half hour, when Caine actually shows some humanity.
Rated 04 Jan 2012
3
38th
Caine is great and it's a nicely plotted crime thriller, but there's nothing all that sexy about it (except Britt Eklund) 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.
Rated 22 Jun 2018
65
72nd
A psychotic My Cocaine plays an anti-hero with no likable qualities in a film without any likable side characters. Some silly one-liners with naivety typical for the era, which are kind of funny ("Cause I know you wear purple underwear!"), but also kind of drop the film down with their serious and grim delivery. The problem I have with the film is that I am simply not a fan of the gangster genre - the morale always seems the same: the anti-hero eats it, his sins catch up with him type of a gig.
Rated 04 Feb 2021
50
35th
I'm mixed on this. While it does have some great scenes, I was just bored for a large part of this. Spoilers: I loved how the girl drowns in the trunk of the car, Caine shows no remorse, and it is never mentioned.
Rated 18 Apr 2022
70
52nd
I felt like my dad watching this. "Oh, who is he again? I'll check Wikipedia to see why he's important." Gotta love Michael Caine taking off his shirt to reveal the most average-looking man. You don't get that anymore.
Rated 17 Jan 2009
82
67th
Caine is great in this and the pacing, while a little odd is extremely effective.
Rated 31 Aug 2022
70
65th
Watchable, but all the violence and brutality is curiously unaffecting, it's portrayed with such detachment. It makes perfect sense that it was one of Stanley Kubrick's favorite movies. Pauline Kael, right on the money, as usual: "What makes the movie unusual is the metallic elegance and the single-minded proficiency with which it adheres to its sadism-for-the-connoisseur formula."
Rated 03 Jan 2007
98
97th
O DVD do Carter passou a semana toda me olhando para que eu o revesse, de hoje não passou. E essa revisão só reiterou o que foi perceptível das outras vezes, Get Carter é uma obra seminal para o filme policial, não só para a crueza das cenas longe de uma estilização mais reverberante na violência que é vista na tela, como foi influente em todo cinema policial que veio depois dele. Meu, continua um filmão. DVD Versátil Cinema Policial Volume 2
Rated 13 Aug 2011
60
46th
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.
Rated 19 Aug 2010
80
84th
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.
Rated 06 Feb 2007
97
99th
The narrow winner in "Best British Gangster Film" and a tour-de-force from Micheal Caine. Goddamn awesome. Stop what you are doing and watch this.
Rated 05 Dec 2009
84
72nd
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.
Rated 17 Jun 2012
8
54th
Lots of really engaging action and a great ending -- a must for anyone interested in gangster flicks.
Rated 15 Jul 2013
80
80th
Michael Caine is awesome!
Rated 03 Oct 2009
72
71st
So cool.
Rated 19 May 2013
75
68th
"Go buy yourself some karate lessons". Massive.
Rated 01 Mar 2009
89
67th
Good revenge flick. A little slow to start of but the second half pays off. Recommended.
Rated 09 May 2014
70
73rd
A solid gangster flick with a great performance by Michael Caine. It takes a while to establish itself, but it stays very strong after Carter discovers the film. The restrained violence is effective.
Rated 17 Feb 2007
50
38th
A dime-a-dozen story with above-average execution (no pun intended).
Rated 15 May 2011
75
54th
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.
Rated 30 Nov 2011
72
44th
#557
Rated 19 Dec 2008
72
44th
570
Rated 14 May 2017
70
57th
a grime Drive. fatalist ousting an infection. all festering and swarming
Rated 23 Nov 2010
78
53rd
The manliest movie with Michael Caine I have seen so far.
Rated 06 Aug 2014
62
18th
feels like there's a good film here, but it can't show past the who-cares story and the small characterisation. Amazingly, this is two hours long, or thirty-five minutes too long, but it's decent here and there and certainly picks up towards the end.
Rated 18 Sep 2013
82
71st
82.000
Rated 01 Oct 2012
83
75th
A slow-burning, deliberate thriller. It has an elegant, delicate quality running through it that you don't see in many crime films, and it really elevates the material. Overall, there's probably nothing too outstanding about the film, but it is nonetheless exquisitely crafted.
Rated 29 Dec 2009
82
66th
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.
Rated 11 Nov 2010
76
59th
Michael Caine is like a rock. He has about as many expressions and his character is at least as hard as one. Skillful directing.
Rated 27 Feb 2007
70
82nd
Caine at his best again.
Rated 17 Jun 2012
7
41st
A pretty unassuming gangster story that's lent substance by Michael Caine's towering badass. Nothing can save you once Carter's given you that stone-cold look.
Rated 15 Jan 2010
72
44th
566
Rated 30 Mar 2007
80
68th
Michael Caine playing an absolute bastard. Effective underworld story
Rated 10 Oct 2008
50
72nd
Jeg har en svaghed for Sir Caine..
Rated 14 Aug 2007
87
63rd
Near great revenge tale.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
99
98th
One of the best of the cockney-era gangster films. Michael Caine has never been this awesome. Crime films have few bettors other than this. Chilly, atmospheric and outstanding.
Rated 08 Aug 2010
70
63rd
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.
Rated 30 Jul 2009
71
31st
soulless, brutal and all the other generic words people use to describe this movie. But shit they are right. Would say its a tad bit long though.
Rated 23 Nov 2009
93
92nd
Cool and classy. With a lot of that peculiar British sense of humor.
Rated 17 Sep 2007
70
63rd
solid
Rated 29 Jan 2010
86
71st
A superb gritty English crime thriller.
Rated 26 Dec 2014
80
50th
Violence breeds violence, which breeds more violence in this enjoyable British gangster picture, a seminal film for Michael Caine, who sharpened his ability in his string of crime films in the 1960s, particularly in this one, to give such a charismatic and arresting performance as a character who has no intention---and neither do the filmmakers---of making us like him.
Rated 01 Jul 2011
84
77th
83.500
Rated 30 May 2009
9
96th
Classic revenge flick.
Rated 11 Dec 2009
71
37th
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.
Rated 29 Dec 2010
39
18th
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.
Rated 22 May 2010
95
99th
Gritty, british noir at its best ! Caine is brilliant, as the scoundrel you love to hate, respect and understand. A must see !!!!!!
Rated 26 Jun 2018
95
84th
Been trying to see this one for years! Gritty British crime drama starring Michael Caine, in a role I've never quite seen him in. Well done!! England's The Godfather!
Rated 01 Mar 2019
95
74th
A dapper Michael Caine owning Alf from Coronation street. No further comment.
Rated 29 Jun 2019
73
82nd
A claustrophobic film of menace and depravity centred on Michael Caine's somewhat clumsy characterisation of British gangland muscle.
Rated 01 Oct 2019
93
79th
Michael Caine fucks people up in this gangster classic.
Rated 29 Apr 2021
95
80th
Carter is a bastard. Fuck. Always a treat to see Britain in the '70s too.
Rated 18 Jul 2021
55
36th
A complete absence of any moral code or structure makes this a more legitimate statement on the criminal underworld than most gangster films. But there wasn't much here to enjoy... just an exercise in nihilism, albeit a well-made exercise. Caine's Carter is far more despicable than any of the people he kills - but only cause he's given a reason to be.
Rated 05 Apr 2022
81
82nd
Michael Caine is great in the lead role in this film. The script has some very good moments and some surprises. Overall I would highly recommend this film.
Rated 31 Aug 2022
90
84th
Get Carter is a time capsule of classic filmmaking that just doesn't exist anymore. Michael Caine plays a suave badass that is on the lookout for the people who killed his brother. There is some very interesting cinematography used in this film - shots that cover the locus with a foreground character. I especially loved the phone sex bit. This movie does a great job of storytelling on a string - everything is tight. I'm still puzzled by the brother's daughter who could also be Jack's daughter.
Rated 18 Jun 2023
65
23rd
What am I missing here? This was hyped up for so long. Yes, Michael Caine is "cool" but everything else (save for the rare "action-ish" scene) was boring! Very slow, glacial film with a drawn out plot.

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