CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

A_Different_Drummer First and foremost (this written in 2017) the film would be a shocker to any millennial who sees Caine mainly as the crying butler in Batman.The film was done at the peak of Caine's career, a time when he had proved he could play anything from a sex god (Alfie) to a spy (Harry Palmer.) In many ways this film combines the two into one.Add to the mix the grittiness of London in the 70s, the emergence of "gangster swag," the treatment of women in general (the words "politically correct" did not exist then) and the outrageously cynical/nihilistic ending -- and you have a timeless classic.If you want to go deeper, and see the film as a prophetic vision of Britain in the 21st century, you can.And for the most fun of all you can compare and contrast to the Stallone version, with its massive rewrites.Stallone did his version at a point in his career where -- unlike Caine -- he knew he had the clock working against him and he desperately needed properties to show his own brand of swag. In the later version, there is more action, less loving, and Stallone does indeed bring to the party his own unique style of physical menace, simply by being in the frame.But this is the version that film buffs of the future will cherish.

Fatman_Crothers I truly believe that 1971's Get Carter is one of the best British films ever made. It is a simple revenge flick, but it is much more than all the 'guns and geezers' trash that has tainted our national cinema. The film has massive amounts of charm and although Caine's character is performing lawless acts of violence, you Sympathise with his cause. The pain and the anger he feels inside makes you feel sorry for him and you understand that he is dealing with the situation in the only way he knows how. Michael Caine gives a stunning performance as one of his most famous characters, Jack Carter, and Mike Hodges direction is well paced and perfect for this film. The setting of Newcastle brings something fresh to the viewer after being soaked with east end cockney gangsters for so many years. I highly recommend that you watch this film (but for your sake, I would try to avoid the Sylvester Stallone remake). It is a brilliant piece of cinema and will be one of the defining moments in Michael Caine's long and extensive career.

sol- Suspecting foul play after learning of his brother's death, a ruthless gangster returns home to find those responsible in this iconic British crime drama starring Michael Caine. The film is credited as a 'thriller' on IMDb, but it is a little too leisurely paced for that to ring true. There is very little sense of urgency to Caine's quest to avenge his brother's death - but this is not necessarily a bad thing. If anything, 'Get Carter' is a refreshingly different sort of revenge movie with limited action and a dislikeable main character whose only noticeable human quality is his dedication to his family. There is also an interesting dynamic at hand with Caine acknowledging that he is "the bad one" and that if either of them should be dead by now, it should be him. For all its uniqueness, 'Get Carter' is not, however, the easiest film to watch. There are quite a few dull patches throughout and it is only so interesting to follow a character with relatively few positive qualities. The film additionally throws so many supporting characters into the mix that, upon first viewing at least, it is sometimes hard to keep track of who is who. The scattered memorable moments of the film are, however, very, very memorable. These include an explicit phone sex session with constants cuts to Caine's landlady rocking back and forth in her chair, as well as a scene in which Caine forces two men out of his room at gunpoint and in the nude. The sombre ending is also pitch perfect. Caine and director Mike Hodges would collaborate on the equally uneven and yet still worthwhile 'Pulp' one year later.

skipari For a start, I am only 21 so my perception of what was and is thought to be acceptable good film making might in some ways have been spoilt by the more recent sorts of films I 'grew up' with, but I was quite disappointed with Get Carter taken as a whole.The prime reason for me for giving this film a go lately was the recommendation of its plain striking atmosphere and given my personal fascination for the Tyneside area I definitely loved the 'authentic' setting of the scenery. It certainly is the thing I liked most about this work, but unfortunately that is almost it. Apart from this the film has some good moments (the very first few cuts of Eklands driving scene...like a couple of other elements this gets exhausting) and the somewhat nihilistic straightness and turns of the plot, let alone the congenial ending, are one thing I could highly enjoy on one side, yet on the other the story 'development' just does not seem to cope with implementing these aspects suitably - neither do including Caine most of the actors, who often enough appear slightly misplaced (for the role of Carter that unluckily does Not apply in the good sense of him as a resolute tough intruder in the northern criminal milieu..) and awkward, which adds to the artificial feeling of the storyline and Carter pulling (shagging and slaying) his mission through. At this point I do not want to vent extensively on some of the conflict scenes, especially around the final, because to me their pathetic setting and acting are too obvious a flaw.After all there are just too many things that do not work together. I left this film behind feeling that it was too half-heartedly conceptualised/made and undeliberately empty to really be that respectively quite overrated top classic some consider it to be.