Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible.
The result is Get Carter for dummies, the biggest ones being those who pay to see it. It's also an incoherent, irredeemable mess.
– Mark Caro,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Stallone's Jack Carter can't shut up -- and his sentimental ramblings, accompanied by facial twitches that are apparently meant to approximate acting, are stupefying.
– Lou Lumenick,
New York Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Once again, [Stallone] cops out on shadows and dimension.
– Gene Seymour,
Newsday,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Stallone is so artificial, tanned and leathery you could replace his mouth with a zipper and sell him as a pocketbook.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
It's ... been shorn of all the edginess and seedy, unsentimental plot elements that made the original a revered cult classic.