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For Get Carter, the able Michael Caine checked in his
likable working-class-bloke persona to play a very unlikable
working-class bloke, London gangster Jack Carter. Heading "up north"
to get to the bottom of the recent death of his brother, he runs afoul
of the local color, who don't appreciate his meddling. Not content to
accept the police report of suicide, Carter begins investigating. He
encounters the local mob boss, his sleazy chauffeur with eyes like
"piss holes in the snow," and the lovely town porn star. The film
moves along at a leisurely pace, until Carter finds out the grim
truth. The final third of the film has Jack Carter on the vengeance
path. No one in this film gets a happy ending. When it's over, you
feel as though you need to wipe the soot off yourself and go stand
under a sun lamp. The British board of tourism would prefer you didn't
watch this film. --Kristian St. Clair
