Synopsis:
Jack Carter's brother is dead. And Jack (Sylvester
Stallone) wants to know why. A Las Vegas mob enforcer, he
carefully packs his guns and sets off for Seattle by
train. At the funeral, he discovers his brother was full
of alcohol when he died in a car accident. But according
to his neice, Doreen (Rachael Leigh Cook), his brother
didn't drink. Jack starts on a tortuous trail that leads,
via gang boss Brumby (Michael Caine) and porno-loving thug
Cyrus Paice (Mickey Rourke), to a Seattle computer
billionaire named Jeremy Kinnear (Alan Cumming). There are
many attempts to stop Jack. Among those trying to
"get Carter" is Con (John C. McGinley), another
enforcer from Las Vegas.
GET CARTER is the second remake of the bleak and gritty
1971 British thriller of the same title. In the original,
directed by Mike Hodges (CROUPIER), Michael Caine was
Carter. The first remake was George Armitage's 1972 film,
HIT MAN. Scriptwriter David McKenna and director Stephen
T. Kay have shifted the location in GET CARTER 2000 to the
Pacific Northwest. While they have made it less perverse
than the original, this version is more upscale, and more
jolting, with splintered jump cuts and pulsating music. |
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