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70s crime thriller. The era of drab colors and semi-gritty/realistic cinema, if that's your thing Get Carter's got you covered. It's certainly not my shtick, but Michael Caine's performance did make it a bit easier to sit through. That and a pretty decent ending. It's a shame the rest of the film couldn't have been more like that. Caine is pretty badass, it's just that I don't really care for that bland 70s vibe. Everything looks so gray, desolate and drab, the characters aren't all that interesting and the plot isn't really a winner either. The last ten minutes are more stylized and show a different side, but not quite enough to save this film.Read all
Oh boy. I kind of get how this film acquired its cult status. It is indeed a spectacle, certainly if you are the type of ironic film fan who gets a kick out of horrible, tasteless cinema. In that sense, Flash Gordon is one of the more interesting films out there. In any other sense, it's a complete disaster. Everything is either incredibly cheap or incredibly kitsch. The costumes are horrendous, the score is maddening, the performances are soul-crushing and the film just keeps on going and going. Everything is just terrible and misguided, which I guess makes it funny to some. Not my kind of cinema. At least it's not boring.Read all
