Get Carter was remade back in 2000 and I’ve been interested to see it since then, so when I saw it in my local Blockbuster for £1.99 I jumped at the chance of a purchase.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have been quite so keen. It’s a mess of a movie, its heart’s in the right place but it’s not a patch on the original.
I was desperate for this to be good. I think Sylvester Stallone is a vastly underrated talent. One of the major reason the movie sucks though is down to its lack of consistency with the original. One minutes its scene for scene perfect, the next its taking the story off at wild, unheard of tangents, then the next thing you know it’s back to being a faithful adaptation.
That is of course until the end, when it goes very, very wrong.
Carter is supposed to die. That’s what makes the original so unique, it’s downbeat from start to end. Hollywood has its rules though and the primary rule is always have a happy ending. Damn shame.
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