March 21, 1971 | 3 weeks at #1
Seen by Martin before? Yes
What did I expect? A superior hardboiled British crime movie.
What did I get? The ultimate in scruffy, pre-Thatcherite hardboiled U.K. cool, Get Carter is the object of considerable fetishization — as its too-high IMBD rating suggests. The admiration for it is so thick that it can be a challenge for the uninitiated to crack its codes, a process I’m still working on. One striking thing about Get Carter is that, for a movie so noted for its violence, it’s almost as much about sex. Another is that, for a movie so noted for its violence, most of the violent scenes are kind of botched. Yet, like Jack Carter himself, it perseveres nevertheless.
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