Movie Reviews

In all honesty, I think Sylvester Stallone is actually a pretty good actor, for certain types of roles. It's too bad he chooses to work on mediocre drech like Get Carter.

Stallone plays Jack Carter, a high-class mob tough-man whose brother dies of suspicious causes, which eventually seems to have something to do with a childish, nerdy high-tech billionaire. Carter vowes revenge, and at the same time tries to re-intigrate himself into the family he took off from many years earlier. The most complex part of the film (and that's not really saying much) is the somewhat-strained relationship that begins to develop between Carter and his dead brother's teenage daughter Doreen (Rachael Leigh Cook).

In addition to the completely uninspired story, there's a couple of truly horrendously-filmed action scenes. I'm thinking mainly of the first car-chase, which is edited so horribly, with about a billion super-quick cuts and close-ups of actors doing their best "I'm driving dangerously-fast" faces, that I found it impossible to actually follow what was happening. Sure, anyone can film a sequence with fast-moving cars, but without actually being to tell where the cars are going and why they're going there, there's no point in doing it.

As strange as it might seem to say this, I would really like to see Sylvester Stallone doing more stuff these days (yeah, I know he's in the new Spy Kids film, but I hear that's pretty awful too). He's just got to pick some better projects to work on.