Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a crime kingpin’s sprawling pleasure dome, from corner hangouts to a wildlife preserve, Tyrone covers a lot of real estate, busts a lot of heads.
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George Armitage returns to the blaxploitation genre, adapting the popular Ted Lewis novel Jack's Return Home (which was adapted in Michael Cane's classic Get Carter) and relocating the action from England to the United States.
Bernie Casey is believable as the titular hitman, emulating many of the characteristics of these anti-heroes despite being the least impressive of the bunch. In part, I understand why the film was perhaps amongst the most sexual and sensual in the genre, sometimes bordering on softcore porn; it is completely appropriate as the film takes place in the world of pornography, but I believe that much of this came at the price of the story. The ending, though, more than makes up for this, and…
Blaxploitation take on Get Carter from the director Grosse Pointe Blank. Enjoyed this well enough (so maybe this criticism should be aimed more at the Stallone version) but there's not exactly much story here - did we really need multiple versions of it?
Hit Man represents blaxploitation in perhaps its truest form; being a lower budgeted reimagining of an earlier hit with a black cast and healthy helpings of sex and violence. In this case, a direct adaptation of the same novel that inspired the previous year’s hardboiled revenge masterpiece Get Carter.
Just like Michael Caine’s Jack Carter, Bernie Casey’s Tyrone Tackett pulls no punches in his mission to find his brother’s killers and see them to their painful demise. The same can’t necessarily be said for the film itself. Which notably has a bit more forgiveness in its heart than the famously dour British version of this tale.
This is blaxploitation after all. The movement definitely owes a debt to hardboiled fiction.…
A fairly drab, low-energy re-imagining of GET CARTER. Although it has its moments, most of those are simply recreations of the iconic conclusion of the UK-set original. And if you happen to watch this for Pam Grier, as did I, you'll not appreciate the way she's handled.
If this was any other movie, Pam would’ve taken on that lion. ⚱️
This reimagining of the classic 1971 British crime film Get Carter for Blaxploitation audiences isn’t bad. After all, the sleazy mafia-affiliated world of pornography is the perfect setting for a Blaxploitation revenge thriller. Mind you, Hit Man doesn’t hold a candle to the original, but it’s not embarrassing. Bernie Casey has Michael Caine’s old role. He’s flown from Oakland to Los Angeles to attend his brother’s funeral and to find out who killed him. Pam Grier gets second billing, but she has very little screen time as one of the (many) women in Casey’s life. Apparently, she agreed to play the part as a favor to Casey, who was struggling to establish himself as a leading man.
Writer-director George Armitage…
Нелепый фанковый гетто-ремейк "Убрать картера", со старта начинающий отставать на километры от версии Майка Ходжеса. Исполнитель главной роли Берни Кейси и так, мягко говоря, не Майкл Кейн, а ему ещё и сложно сопереживать, поскольку спустя десять минут после похорон он уже бухает с друзьями, меняет вычурные сутенерские костюмы и вообще выглядит намного более заинтересованным в пикапе цыпочек, чем в поиске виновных. Есть повторение нескольких сцен оригинала, но крайне убогое и без понимания их контекста. В этом смысле местная сцена секса по телефону, вместо того чтобы стать ключевой для раскрытия персонажа, использована как дешевый способ показать сиськи, к тому же не одну пару, поскольку при разговоре героя с любовницей, присутствует еще одна восхищающаяся этим процессом дама, которую он, договорив, трахнет. Я…
Slow starter but picks up speed and pays off big time with a nasty, fun last half-hour. This might be Pam Grier's sleaziest role, playing a porn star caught up in the murder of Bernie Casey's brother. There's a real dark sense of humour throughout the whole thing, as shown by all these shots of lions. You keep thinking, "What's with these lions?" Then they make it pay off in a scene that's both hilarious and disturbing. Lots of grisly violence too. Recommended.
“You're the way I like my men - proud and erect.”
Based on the novel by Ted Lewis “Jack’s Return Home” and made a year after Michael Caine’s film adaptation “Get Carter”, this is an entertaining blaxploitation version of the source material.
Bernie Casey is Tyrone Tackett, who comes to LA to investigate the death of his brother. Pam Grier plays a porn actress and there’s an uncredited appearance by Paul Gleason. Roger E. Mosley (best known for his role In Magnum PI) also appears in this film as one of the thugs.
It’s a pretty faithful adaptation with memorable lines and some slight changes to fit the genre like more nudity and violence. There’s one specific scene in which one of the characters gets killed in an unexpected way that’s quite memorable. There’s also a scene showing a dog fight that may upset viewers.
Watched via TCM
pretty straightforward blaxplo remake of GET CARTER. flips the gender of the avenged sibling, but unfortunately doesn't do anything with that, which robs the story of a lot of its skeevy charm. but you could do a lot worse than Bernie Casey stomping around fucking dudes up for 90 minutes.
When you sit down to watch a blaxploitation version of Get Carter there are certain things you expect to see, such as Bernie Casey kicking all kinds of ass, but what I didn't expect was to see Pam Grier being mauled to death by a fucking lion!
A Blaxploitation remake of Get Carter with Bernie Casey and Pam Grier. Hit Man keeps the tone of the original classic English gangster film, though adds a Blaxploitation spin. The film is really faithful to Get Carter, or closely adapted from the same book, but with a cooler California edge. It has an incredible soul-funk theme tune and some impressive directorial work from George Armitage (who would go on to direct Grosse Pointe Blank and Miami Blues).
Hit Man may not have the grim air of Get Carter's North of England, but the sleazy vibe is kept intact, mainly through the use of porn subplot, giving form by Pam Grier. Grier was never shy of nudity, but Hit Man could…
