Get Carter (1971)

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Jack Carter is a London gangster in Newcastle to find out who killed his brother Frank, getting it on with every girl he meets along the way. It's not Hollywood: it's dank, muted and pallid grey.

It's realistic, I suppose, but that makes it dull: knifing a man in the stomach in a dull English morning doesn't have the same action potential as a John Woo shootout. The end result is like Shaft by way of Ken Loach.

Carter isn't Sweet Sweetback, and his soundtrack lacks funk, but he's the English equivalent. I'm thankful that Get Carter didn't launch a wave of Britsploitative films about scrawny sex machines with all the bad teeth, but one is quite bad enough.

- Sam - 2007-03-21 23:55:11