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- 1971
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 52 m
- 1971
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 52 m
Summary When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.
Directed By: Mike Hodges
Written By: Ted Lewis, Mike Hodges
- 1971
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 52 m
- 1971
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 52 m
Get Carter
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Summary When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.
Directed By: Mike Hodges
Written By: Ted Lewis, Mike Hodges
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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7% Mixed
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Possibly Caine's finest hour in one of the grittiest, most suspense-filled crime dramas of all time.
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There's no mistaking its chilling charisma and style. [11 Jun 1999, p.15]
Mike Hodges' top-notch adaptation of a Ted Lewis novel not only maintains interest but conveys with rare artistry, restraint and clarity the many brutal, sordid and gamy plot turns.
You can practically taste the grit and grime of the mean streets of this North of England setting. [17 Aug 1996, p.11]
So calculatedly cool and soulless and nastily erotic that it seems to belong to a new genre of virtuoso viciousness. What makes the movie unusual is the metallic elegance and the singleminded proficiency with which it adheres its sadism-for-the-connoisseur formula.
Carter, of course, is a paragon of strength, intelligence, ruthlessness, sexual attraction and even a dry sense of humour. Michael Caine does well to portray him impassively, as if he feared to burst out laughing. [12 Mar 1971]
