(rated R)
In a remake of the British cult classic “Get Carter” Sylvester Stallone plays Jack Carter, a Vegas mobster who comes home to Seattle to bury his brother, after an apparent car accident. Once home he begins to believe that it may not have been “accidental.” His two-day journey through the underbelly of the city, leads Jack through revenge, reconnection with a family he left behind many years earlier, and ultimately, redemption. Miranda Richardson “Sleepy Hollow” as Carter’s widowed sister-in-law, with Michael Caine as Cliff Brumby, owner of the club that Carter’s brother managed. Mickey Rourke does an excellent job in a role carved for him, as Cyrus Paice, a mobster with ties to Carter and his family. While the acting is all well cast and delivered, it is Stallone who fails as a white lazy-voiced Shaft-type, attempting to revamp his career a la “Pulp Fiction.” The stories flavor is reminiscent of last year’s Boston based “Southie” starring Donnie Wahlberg, as a young inner city punk returning home to a family funeral. But, this one is pretty bad. Translation: producer Elie Samaha drove Travolta’s “Battlefield Earth” into the ground too.
In a remake of the British cult classic “Get Carter” Sylvester Stallone plays Jack Carter, a Vegas mobster who comes home to Seattle to bury his brother, after an apparent car accident. Once home he begins to believe that it may not have been “accidental.” His two-day journey through the underbelly of the city, leads Jack through revenge, reconnection with a family he left behind many years earlier, and ultimately, redemption. Miranda Richardson “Sleepy Hollow” as Carter’s widowed sister-in-law, with Michael Caine as Cliff Brumby, owner of the club that Carter’s brother managed. Mickey Rourke does an excellent job in a role carved for him, as Cyrus Paice, a mobster with ties to Carter and his family. While the acting is all well cast and delivered, it is Stallone who fails as a white lazy-voiced Shaft-type, attempting to revamp his career a la “Pulp Fiction.” The stories flavor is reminiscent of last year’s Boston based “Southie” starring Donnie Wahlberg, as a young inner city punk returning home to a family funeral. But, this one is pretty bad. Translation: producer Elie Samaha drove Travolta’s “Battlefield Earth” into the ground too.