
Sony Pictures Classics - Sony Pictures Classics
Release date: 2005-08-23
DVD
Director:Matthew Vaughn
Actors: Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham, Dexter Fletcher, Michael Gambon, Colm Meaney
Action, Action / Adventure, Action/Adventure, Adult Language, Adventure, Chilly, Claustrophobic, Color, Crime, Crime Drama, Dishonor Among Thieves, Drama, Drug Trade, Earthy, English, Feature, Feature Film-action/Adventure, Forceful, Gangster Film, Going Straight




With a plot that would take longer than the movie to explain, this is a gangster movie with everyone double or triple crossing everyone else. Just great fun but don't expect to see Sienna Miller in this movie for more than thirty seconds at a time. This is the kind of character that Steve McQueen used to play, cooler than cool and steady as the Rock of Gibralta.
Just watch the film and enjoy, but don't blink, you'll miss something important. (Americans may find it difficult to understand some of the language and the accents on some of the characters are very thick.)
***1/2 2004. Based on J.J. Connolly's Layer Cake, this film was directed by the British director Matthew Vaughn. London. Daniel Craig is told by his boss to purchase the loot offered by the Duke and his gang. But this loot was robbed in the Netherlands from a local Serbian drug lord who's not happy at all. With David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises (Widescreen Edition) and John Mackenzie's The Long Good Friday - Criterion Collection, you'll have with LAYER CAKE a near complete overview of the London underground described in cinema. Recommended.