a beautiful fart

I think Stallone had more make-up on in this film, then the entire cast of "Moulin Rouge"....and what's with the goatee? was it real? in fact, was Stallone himself real in this film, or was it a hologram. Yeah, well i was asking myself the same questions throughout this film. I still have this strange attraction to Stallone's recent output...am i a victim of guilty pleasures? The original get carter is one of my absolute favourites, it had a raw central intensity to it. but this tepid, uninspired remake is akin to what "the assassin" is to the far superior original, "nikita". There are so many things i couldnt figure out, if Carter was so detached from his brother, why did he bother to avenge his death so badly? why not pay the guy some mind while he's alive. Rachel leigh cook, was awesome in this film, she is the bomb, probably her best performance, although i think in a few scenes she was sickering at Stallone's wardrobe (another major debit). Mickey Rourke was totally believable in this role, i especially loved the scene where he's explaining how dope the internet is to Stallone and how he is "swimming in the pond with the big fish" or some baloney. I nearly died laughing. The director's commentary is horrendously bad on the DVD, as Stephen Kay barely talks, (maybe a good thing), i think he should go back to delivering pizza. Lets hope this movie wont be made into a franchise (a la "Death Wish"), with Stallone avenging the deaths of anyone he remotely knew. At least this was better than "Driven". YO ADRIAN!

i saw this film about 3 weeks ago, and i was pleasantly surprised. it bared a number of similarities to Scott's previous film "enemy of the state", especially in the speed-frame camera work and editing. the middle section of the film became a bit muddled with all the intrigue, but i thought pitt and especially redford were commanding throughout. the guy i went to see this with, went to see "behind enemy lines" the next day and said that it kicked ass over this film, but i just disagreed and cut a fart on him.

8/10

another annoying local product, where "hip" pretentious dialogue, and wanna-be wacky characters are supposed to make a coherent film. supposedly, the book has some sort of "cult" status, but i dont read which is probably why i've never heard of it.

well, at least noah taylor was less annoying here than he was in "tomb raider", the british girl was so dang irritating, and sophie lee over-acted madly. i did however like the fat dude with dreadlocks and the cockney landlord who threatened noah taylor.

this film just came across as another series of character viginettes, none of which were convincing or humourous. by the way, out of all the australian bands that could of been played over the opening credits....why spiderbait???????

2/10 (the 2 is for the close-up of the bucket bong)