Plot
A vicious London gangster, Jack Carter, travels to Newcastle for his brother's funeral. He begins to suspect that his brother's death was not an accident and sets out to follow a complex trail of lies, deceit, cover-ups and backhanders through Newcastle's underworld, leading, he hopes, to the man who ordered his brother killed. Because of his ruthlessness, Carter exhibits all the unstopability of the cyborg in The Terminator (1984), or Walker in Point Blank (1967), and he and the other characters in this movie are prone to sudden, brutal acts of violence.
Written by
Mike Hodges, Ted Lewis
Directed by
Mike Hodges
Crew
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Languages
English
Awards
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 nomination total
Scores
# of Votes
38,053
Average Rating
7.3 out of 10
Metascore
80
Popularity
NA