Michael Caine stars in this revenge crime drama as a Gangster from London who decides to look in to the suspicious death of his brother.his investigation ends up ruffling some feathers,and Jack becomes a target.i won't say anything else about the story.you'll have yo watch the movie to find out more.i' will say that this is not what you would call an action packed movie.it moves at a moderate pace.it's not boring.things are always happening,just not at a frenetic pace.and every scene occurs for a reason,even if it doesn't appear that way.at least that's the impression i felt.but it's really the acting that's the anchor here.Caine is great as the title character who won't give up,until he finds the answers.the supporting cast is also good.for me,Get Carter is a 3.5/5

Just on the basis of viewing the 1st 2mins of this version of Get Carter, I would never purchase the DVD. I've seen the original (UK) version of it, and this ain't it!

Why were Sid Fletcher's and Geralds' voices overdubbed?!?!?!? God only knows what else was edited and overdubbed!

Charlie Tesoro

One of the great gangsta movies of all time. Puts the new wave of ultra-violent or ultra-derivative London gansta movies to shame. Note: don't watch the remake instead.

Get Carter is one of the best motion pictures of the 1970's and perhaps the greatest British criminal themed film of all time. Michael Caine has never had a better role nor delivered as deceptively intense and deep an acting performance. To propose this when Caine is one of the greatest actors to have lived on the planet is saying a mouthful. Like POINT BLANK (1967) was with the great John Boorman and Lee Marvin co-creating, Mike Hodges and Michael Caine in 1971 created a steely no-apologies masterpiece. The only wonder is that British MGM and American MGM meddling executives at the time allowed the film to be released without destructive compromising cuts for commercialism and what is now called political correctness. The supporting cast is uniformaly dead-on. The perhaps unrecognized co-star of the film is the cold-sobering, gritty, pre-Thatcher English location of Newcastle. Long live Michael Caine and long live the ballsy gentlemen like Jack Carter. Also, for outstanding source material that does Mickey Spillane proud, check out the Jack Carter novels by the late Ted Lewis.

The Bottom Line:

A brutal and harsh movie that makes the most of its decaying Newcastle setting, Get Carter is sometimes aimless but it's anchored by an intense Michael Caine; almost nihilistic in its bleakness, it's quite a movie.