Get Carter is arguably Michael Caine's best film, and one of my favourites.
It was a revenge story, not a vigilante movie like Harry Brown, but how do you think the two compare?
They don't Harry brown is crap get Carter is a classic British film
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I much prefer Get Carter, it was just much gritter and real feeling. The people he kills in Get Carter, they beg for their lives, there's doubt they are guilty, they are only remotely involved, and usually aren't any sort of direct threat. But none of that matters, he throws the guy off a roof, drowns his daughter's ex in the trunk of a car, stabs his own friend, etc. Harry Brown was basically John Wick with a pensioner. The violence in Get Carter felt very reality based.
shareThis is nonsense, the people Jack Carter kills are all involved in prostituting his niece which leads to the murder of his brother. His 'daughter's ex'? He doesn't have a daughter, plus he doesn't kill her the car is pushed off the harbour by his mates from London. You need to watch Get Carter again by the sounds of it.
shareIt's definitely implied in the originally Get Carter that his brother's daughter is actually his. Also, Carter didn't seem too concerned that this stuff was going on that he himself was tangentially beforehand involved with until it affected a family member. Also, he may have injured or killed an innocent in the film. When he throws the guy off the roof the body hits a car down below. If anyone was inside the car they could either be injured or dead.
shareThey are both good films in slightly different ways. I do have a lot more sympathy for the character of Harry Brown though. He was dealing with out and out bad guys so that the area where he lived would be safer for ordinary, law abiding people to live (as well as avenging his murdered friend).
Whereas with Jack Carter's character I found myself initially sympathising with him: he was avenging his law abiding brother's murder. However although I sympathised with him killing Eric (he was directly involved in the murder) and Peter the Dutchman (self defence), most of the other people whom he murders are only indirectly involved at worst. Albert Swift, whom he murders outside the bookies, Carter admits that he knows that he did not kill him. Also the long, drawn out way that he kidnaps Margaret and almost casually murders her, partly to drop Kinnear in it was when I lost any sympathy for him. To say nothing of the people in the car, when that bloke whom he chucks off the top of that building, lands on their car. They looked badly injured at best. He was pissed off that his illegitimate daughter/niece had gone into making that porno film. The firm which he worked for seemed to be involved in vice. He did not seem to be bothered that he was involved in the same kind of racket, which involved other people's nieces/daughters. So no, I ended up not liking him and thought that he got his just deserts.