fantastic!!!
firstly a million times better than the 2000 remake.
the film is fantastic, brilliant story and a brilliant location, tyneside, a lot has changed there now, but ig you knew the place even 10 years back you can imagine Carter roaming the streets.
classic quotes to be had, and in my opinion one of the best title sequences and music scores in a film to date.

the story is dark, secretive and violent, Carter is a man on a mission. this for the price it is now is certainly one to watch, especially for people who like British cinema. it captures time so well, the "Get Carter Car Park" is due for demolition and is standing there cold, a reminder of what once happened there.

Not just an epic gangster movie but a very articulate piece of detective work the main character follows before any violence is carried out which adds to the realism and depths of this type of movie. Carter not only seeks vengeance for the death (murder) of his brother as it looks as though Frank may have just got drunk as a skunk and drove his car into the river but makes sure he tracks everyone down connected to the death of his brother and executes them in various ways. I would strongly recommend you purchase this all time classic not just for the acting of Michael Caine but of all the characters that made this an entertaining movie. Buy this Classic!!

the classic gangster movie made on british soil. i have no doubt that without this there would be no snatch or lock stock. ite a great film.

This 1971 masterpiece from director Mike Hodges is still the best gangster film that's ever come from Britain. The story of Michael Caine's lethal avenger coming to Newcastle to find out who murdered his brother is absolutely riveting and the sudden outbursts of violence are still quite shocking. The Newcastle locations are brilliantly photographed, raw and evocative.

Michael Caine gives a note perfect performace as the remorseless killer in this grim, near heartless film. It's the template for every British gangster film that's made today, but none of these films can equal its squalid integrity.

Launched like a British Rail torpedo, Caine's Carter is propelled by train to his hated hometown of Newcastle to take revenge on his brother's killers. Self absorbed and supremely confident Carter is the working class boy made bad. His uniform is a Saville Row three-piece suit; he travels first class, and cleans his soupspoon before eating. Every movement is precise, every put-down a masterpiece, every stare an execution.
Carter stands for family but only in the most superficial sense. His desire to avenge his brother is due to the personal affront his murder has on the Carter name. He may show an ounce of tenderness by placing his hand gently on his dead brother's but even this miniscule show of affection is tarnished when Carter is seen shaving over the open coffin later.
The villains Carter is pitched against care nothing for his family values no matter how twisted they maybe. They are out to humiliate him through the death of his brother and the violation of his niece. Kinnear and Pace are portrayed as morally defunct, framing Northern society in sex scandals that mirror Profumo. Carter is happy to be part of this social cesspool but once his family name is drowned in it he has to act.
Carter inhabits an England gripped by the fall out from the 60s. Weed and Acid have been replaced by Heroin and Cocaine, free love by pornography. Celebrity gangsters like the Krays and the Richardsons have had their veneer of glamour peeled back to reveal the cruel nastiness lurking beneath the David Bailey photographs. Police corruption is rife and the only time the law is encountered is when Carter uses them for his own dark means.
This world is littered with broken relationships and adultery. Nearly every character is embroiled in a sordid affair; the destruction of the family unit is rife in Get Carter, with Carter as complicit as the most despicable of his enemies.
In fact Carter is far more ruthless than any of the local gangsters he comes up against and far more inventive. His revenge is served hot, cold, and vicious, a shockingly calculated annihilation that leaves no doubt in the mind as to how atrocious Carter truly is.
Yet as stated before he is capable of a stunted affection. He cries (albeit privately) upon a devastating revelation and perhaps this lapse of his warped masculinity is what really sends him on his final course of terrifying action, with the dreadful outcome inevitable and necessary.

Lock, Stock......Layer Cake......Snatch.......all these are the love child of the original and the best!!
A must for gangster fans...

What on earth was Stallone thinking when he decided to remake this definitive British gangster classic? Michael Caine has never been better than as Jack Carter in this outstanding, gritty seventies classic. And Sly thought he could follow in his footsteps? He'd have had more success trying to rewrite the British national anthem...
Simply put...nothing comes close