Mickey Rourke: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked‏

And 5 Performances That Sucked€

5. Cyrus Paice - Get Carter (2000)

Get Carter is probably the best film Michael Caine's ever made. It's certainly the nastiest role he's ever played, his eponymous gangster employing many of the same reprehensible tactics and character traits of the very undesirables he spends the movie hunting down across some grimy kitchen sink locations across County Durham. It's generally considered to be one of the best British films ever made, ranking 16th out of BFI's list of a hundred, which is what makes the American remake - some thirty years after the fact - all the more god awful. Not that it needs to be a remake of a classic for it to be mostly unwatchable, because that's a feat in manages all by itself. It didn't even manage a release in the UK. Mickey Rourke's performance in the 2000 Get Carter, as mob boss Cyrus Paice, is a damp squib in a film littered with them. His turn isn't the thing that drags the movie down or anything, since nobody comes of well at the end of it; weirdly impressive, since it boasts a cast that includes Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson and Alan Cumming. Rourke does suck pretty hard still, playing the part as pretty much the opposite of Marv: a one dimensional caricature of a stock criminal, mumbling his way through an unimpressive script and totally unconvincing in his two fist fights against Stallone. Don't call it a comeback...because it really wasn't.