It's entirely appropriate this was remade as a blaxplotiation film because it feels like white blaxploitation - there's a funky soundtrack, Michael Caine's Carter is a bad ass out for revenge, he comes in to town and within something like two days manages to solve the crime, kill a lot of baddies, have sex with two women and phone sex with a third, kills two women.
It's new lad cinema par excellance, with its ruthless hero. Carter is a superstud. He's also not softened - a young kid who helps him is bashed up and he barely cares though offers some cash, he kills two women like I said, throws a tubby businessman off a staircase. So it makes sense morally that he dies.
It is unpleasant at times but also very well done. Location filming helps as does the superb cast - Caine was never better, nor was Britt Ekland, or John Osborne or Ian Hendry.
I'm always suspicious of people who really, really love this movie but it is extremely well made.
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