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Layer Cake
2004
As deeply cool and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER CAKE follows the precise, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he manoeuvres through what he intends to be his last business deal in modern-day London. His business...Drugs. On the cusp of turning 30, XXXX has amassed a personal fortune, deftly avoiding the violence and ugliness .. Read more
| Starring | Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman, Sally Hawkins |
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| Director | Matthew Vaughn |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama |
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Layer Cake
As deeply cool and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER CAKE follows the precise, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he manoeuvres through what he intends to be his last business deal in modern-day London. His business...Drugs. On the cusp of turning 30, XXXX has amassed a personal fortune, deftly avoiding the violence and ugliness so many others in his trade fall prey to by following a strict personal code defined by discretion and clean detachment from the products he sells. Just as XXXX is poised to cash in and get out, Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham), the top layer of this particular underworld cake, hands down two tasks: find Eddie Temple's (Michael Gambon) drug-addicted daughter, and unload a mass of ecstasy stolen in Amsterdam by the sloppy, loud Duke (Jamie Foreman), who is exactly the type of wannabe gangster that XXXX has spent his career avoiding. Further complicating matters is Tammy (Sienna Miller), a sexy young blond who XXXX meets in a club and can't get off his mind.
| Starring | Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman, Sally Hawkins, Burn Gorman, George Harris, Tamer Hassan, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, Michael Gambon, Sienna Miller |
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| Director | Matthew Vaughn |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 44 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 45 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama |
| Language | English, English Audio Description |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | English, Hindi |
| Released | DVD: 07 Mar 2005 Blu-ray: 19 Mar 2007 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
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The directorial debut of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch producer Matthew Vaughn, this is a decent enough British crime thriller, but one that's done few favours by such an off-puttingly nondescript title. Daniel Craig plays a rising young drug dealer whose ambition is to make some quick money and then retire early to enjoy it. His plans — involving a massive shipment of ecstasy — are complicated by drugs lord Kenneth Cranham, who asks him to find the missing wayward daughter of an associate (dodgy businessman Michael Gambon). The performances are good, and Vaughn directs with assuredness and aplomb, but there's an over-familiarity about the subject matter that suggests it's time for Vaughn and his crime-movie contemporaries to seek inspiration elsewhere.
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Enjoyable fantasy of criminal life in a bright, neatly-plotted thriller; it is much concerned with the pecking order within the criminal world as various gangs jockey for prime position by attempting to outwit and out shoot one another.
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50 out of 63 people found this review helpful
The Brits can make excellent movies
This is a truly brilliant British movie. This film is way above anything to come out of British Cinema in the past 10 years. Forget Lock Stock and Snatch and the other pretenders. With great performances and locations, soundtrack, this is the one to watch. Daniel Craig ought to be heading to Hollywood in big way on the strength of this movie.
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Great crime thriller
Layer Cake is a great film from the producer of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. It has a very good cast (including Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Sienna Miller, Michael Gambon), great acting, is funny, dark and violent, and has a good soundtrack. The story is also great (it is interesting, compelling, but could be somewhat confusing to some), and the movie has a great ending.
The 2-disc DVD has very good extras, including a director and writer commentary, over 20-minutes of deleted scenes and 2 alternative endings (the ending used in the film has the most impact, and is the best of the three available), a very interesting 20-minute Q&A with Daniel Craig and Matthew Vaughn(the director), storyboard comparisons, a music video, a photo gallery, and trailers. -
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