Get Carter - 2000

A film I didn't even know existed, but not too bad. There are a few things totally useless and I think they weighted on it. The nice part was the relationship between Carter and his niece Doreen, never too much, difficult of touching where it had to be. In details: Stallone is Jack Carter, who calls himself a "financial enforcer": what he does is beating up people who owe money to mob boss Fletcher. When his brother dies, he leaves Las Vegas to go to the funeral. He used to live there so he knows where to go and who he should talk to. Jack believes his brother Ritchie has been murdered, and he unveils many things: Cyrus (Mickey Rourke) makes porn movies using girls that not only know nothing about the movie, but are also drugged and raped. Millionaire Kinnear (Alan Cumming) helps him financially (for some reason he's in Cyrus hands) and when Ritchie took hold of a disk with some videos in it, Cyrus killed him. Watching the video, Jack is overwhelmed and enraged when he sees Doreen. Luckily she remembers very little, although that little is already too much imo.
The best scene of the movie is when Jack talks to Doreen without telling her that he knows. He says she's a special girl, history is in the past we can only move on, shit can happen to anybody, and all those things that could work for him too. He also says that her mom loves her and she should talk to her. Doreen understands that somehow he knows, and talks to him and they hug and it's a nice scene, played well both by Stallone and Rachel Leigh Cook (Doreen, of course).
Jack kills the rapist first then he beats Cyrus up but doesn't shoot him (he was either unconscious or already dead, his end is not clear to me). He goes after Kinnear but gives him a second chance and lets him go alive. He kills Brumby (Michael Caine) who had always claimed to be Ritchie's friend but he was in on it too. Again, it's not too clear to me what his part was, in the whole mess.
Unfortunately there was a sort of side story: Jack had an affair with the girlfriend of his boss, apparently. He tells her to go away, she doen't. Fletcher tells him (again) to come back, but he doesn't, so Jack's ex-partner comes to kill him: fast chase, a bit of shouting and a boring conclusion where Jack, obviously, wins. This story is useless and weighs on the movie. The time would have been better filled in some other way, something concerning the main plot: with Jack and Doreen, or Doreen and her mom (Miranda Richardson), or a bigger talk Jack-Cyrus, or maybe explaining better Brumby's role in the matter... Mostly it would have been good to see more about Ritchie's story, what he knew about them, how he came to have that disk (yes, the girl gave it to him but why? did he know already about Doreen or did he watch it for other reasons?) , the whole story I mean.



ITA la vendetta di Carter