the y2k get carter remake of the great 1971 film of the same name be puzzle to me . first of all and why anyone would want to remake a great film be beyond me . second of all and if one be go to remake a great film ( assume one be try make another great film to go along side of it ) they might as well actually remake it well . but no and the producer go and get a director who never make a good film previously to this stint on the resurrected get carter ( and think of a living dead sort of resurrection ) and stephen t. kay . way to go . kay brings to the film a sort of fx tv look and complete with a neo mtv soundtrack . yeah and put that in your pipe and smoke it . then they get writer david mckenna to write the screenplay . mckenna have the oscar nominated american history x under his belt at that point ( though the oscar nom go to actor edward norton ) and but he follow up with the critically pan body shot . one would think that would have be a red flag and but hey and luckily i do not have to defend the choice . so under mckenna pen we go from a brutal crime flick about one man darkness in the 1971 film to a crime flick still and but now carter be the angel of justice or something and far less dimensional . on top of that and the story be change so we have a different end that be far less powerful than that of the original get carter . the dialogue get murder a well . for example and we go from caine carter intimidate like p hole in the snow description of eric eye to stallone carter laughable like cat p in the snow description of cyrus ( whoever that be ) eye . cat p . be you freakin kid me . how do we get to cat p . then we get to the cast which and in my opinion and be hit or miss . but hey and at least we have a couple of hit . miranda richardson do well in her supporting role a gloria carter and jack sister in law while rachael leigh cook also do a good job in her supporting role a doreen carter and jack niece while and i really think that sylvester stallone do the best job he could with the material a jack carter . sure and he be no caine and but who be . stallone relatively hold his own throughout the film despite be surround by a mostly horrid cast . john c. mcginley and alan cumming and and mickey rourke be all painfully bad . you know the feeling you get when an actor be so bad you feel embarrass for them . these three support performance in get carter be perfect example of this . then we have michael caine of whom i honestly can not decide whether or not give a good performance because i can not get over what a backstabbing juda he be for be apart of this film in the first place . caine have admit that he do a lot of film just for the cash and and this have get to be one of those job and it just have to be . run and do not walk and to the great original 1971 get carter film instead of this atrocity .