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candid


Favourite actor:	Al Pacino
Favourite director:	Sam Peckinpah
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About me:	Romantic-leaning ethicist who likes well-structured works with expert pacing and nifty dialogue.

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GET CARTER 2 , 8 March 2011

Harry Brown on DVD (2009)
Starring: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Iain Glen
Director: Daniel Barber
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Despite being somewhat contrived, this is a stylish look at inner city crime among the White lower class. Despite the large scale absence of Black people here, the Whites adopt UK Black slang as their favored argot to express their emotional limitations born of being unwanted children.

A sort of Get Carter (1971) for senior citizens, this offers only curative solutions to the structural problems presented, yet is as entertaining as these serious limitations allows.

The characterization is good but not deep – yet just deep enough to make this rise above the usual violent revenge-thriller. The over-eager desire to please its audience with action creates a tension between the film being plot- and/or character driven: This becomes obvious with deleted scenes that reveal some rather good acting left on the cutting room floor. The high quality performances that remain require special mention and Michael CAINE is especially moving as the old Royal Marine at the end of his tether: His world weary and quiet performance as a lonely widower dominates the film. Moreover, Ben DREW, as the depraved criminal’s son is extremely scary along with his two henchboys: Jamie DOWNEY & Jack O'CONNELL. The drug- & arms’-dealer (Sean HARRIS) is also superbly-unhinged while being balanced by Emily MORTIMER & Charlie CREED-MILES as two police officers caught in the middle of all the mayhem.

Without this classy casting, this movie would simply be another cloned cross between Taxi Driver (1976) and Death Wish (1974) - with none of the brilliance of the former 0 out of 1 person found this review helpful

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