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- 2022
- TV-MA
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- 2 h 12 m
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- Netflix
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- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2 h 12 m
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2 h 12 m
Carter
Metascore
Available after 4 critic reviews
5.5
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I’ve seen a lot of good movies this year, but Carter is a challenger to Top Gun: Maverick and Everything Everywhere All at Once for “Most Fun.” It’s also easily the most violent and visceral, on par at least with The Northman, but at a higher rate of corpses-per-minute.
This is “Crank” with one long, frenetic, ticking-clock chase and the occasional “Mission: Impossible” level stunt, and a body count and a story that you cannot let yourself think about, even though both are in your face and appalling, first scene to closing credits.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 User Ratings
5.5
36% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
45% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
18% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 User Ratings
5.5
36% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
45% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
18% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Not for kids. This is closer to a parody of Mission Impossible films than to a serious action film. This is a:
- gifted director,
- gifted stunt crew,
- gifted drone pilot cameraman, and
- gifted green screen VFX compositors ......
riffing on and improvising on the theme of ONE SHOT ACTION TAKES. NO MORE NOR LESS. For this reason the film will be of more interest to filmmakers and fans of how films are made, not so much to action film fans.
The same thing happened with Hardcore Henry. If you liked the bus fight scene in Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings--this is an entire film of similar action with cars, motorcycles, zip lines, trains, helicopters, you name it.
Better than Hardcore Henry (2015)! This is not a movie in the usual sense. All complaints about the plot are irrelevant. I found it possible to ignore the few scenes especially at the beginning in poor taste. Be warned the body count is in the hundreds but all the blood has been put in in post, just like John Wick. Both Henry and Carter take video-game gun and fighting violence to 11 in a succession of stunt team fantasies. It's often mayhem.
The plot and characters are negligible; yet, way better than Henry. The lead, Joo Won, is especially deeply invested in his character and therefore very watchable.
This is by far the best drone camerawork I can recall seeing. Never done better in my experience.
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Carter is a surreal action movie if you won't take it seriously. Cuz of its fake one-shot editing which looks like cheap B-Film on Youtube, I can't take it seriously. But it has a Mad-Max-type non-stop action with lots of nonsense. Some of you could enjoy. Dunno.
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South Korean Hardcore Henry. Lots and lots of action. Nothing, absolutely nothing of substance.
In many instances that's not a bad thing, and I can recognize what this film manages to build fine in many of its sequences, but beyond that, it's a blur that wears off the second the credits start to run.
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Un film d’action sur-vitaminé que Statham lui-même n’aurait pas renié… car en effet, le héros amnésique distribue ici des mandales à n’en plus finir, vu que toute une armée d’espions et de tueurs veut **** et/ou le flinguer…!
Cependant, on ne sait pas pourquoi, ni comment, encore moins le pourquoi du comment mais une sourde machination gronde et un vilain complot est ourdi, alors qu’une épidémie de je-ne-sais-quoi fait des ravages…! le héros amnésique ne sait pas pour qui il travaille ou travaillait et ça part dans tous les sens comme dans un mauvais nanar à la petite semaine, boulotté par quelques scénaristes très fatigués, pour ne pas dire claqués au sol.
Ce n’est pas que cela néanmoins, car la réalisation est problématique et donne mal à la tête ! tout est filmé ici caméra à l’épaule ou via un vrai faux drone qui tourne autour des comédiens et de l’action ; loin d’être souple, le procédé donne l’impression d’une multitude de plans recollés en un seul par l’ordinateur, donnant l’impression de plusieurs plans-séquences… toujours saccadés !
Alors bien sûr, ça ne cut pas, ça ne zoom pas non plus et l’action reste lisible mais donne quand même mal au crâne à force de tourner autour de l’action et des évènements, y compris dans les scènes calmes et les dialogues d’ailleurs ! bref, c’est un peu comme abuser des points d’exclamation à la fin de chaque paragraphe : c’est abusé !
Voilà donc un film un peu trop débile et aberrant pour espérer convaincre… et dites à ce drone d’arrêter de tourner autour des gens comme ça, putain !
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Production Company
Apeitda,
Musa Productions
Release Date Aug 5, 2022
Duration 2 h 12 m
Rating TV-MA
Tagline No Memory, One Mission
