Layer Cake [Blu-ray]
starring: Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham, Dexter Fletcher, Michael Gambon, Colm Meaney
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home EntRelease Date: 03/13/2007Run time: 105 minutesRating: R
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As its title suggests, Layer Cake is a crime thriller that cuts into several levels of its treacherous criminal underworld. The title is actually one character's definition of the drug-trade hierarchy, but it's also an apt metaphor for the separate layers of deception, death, and betrayal experienced by the film's unnamed protagonist, a cocaine traffic middle-man played with smooth appeal by Daniel Craig (rumored at the time of this film's release to be on the short list for consideration as the next James Bond). Listed in the credits only as "XXXX," the character is trapped into doing a favor for his volatile boss, only to have tables turned by his boss's boss (Michael Gambon) in a twisting plot involving a stolen shipment of Ecstasy, a missing girl, duplicitous dealers, murderous Serbian gangsters, and a variety of lowlifes with their own deadly agendas. As adapted by J.J. Connolly (from his own novel) and directed by Matthew Vaughan (who earned his genre chops as producer of Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch), Layer Cake improves upon those earlier British gangland hits with assured pacing, intelligent plotting, and an admirable emphasis on plot-moving dialogue over routine action. Sure, it's violent (that's to be expected) and not always involving, but it's smarter than most thrillers, and Vaughan's directorial debut has a confident style that's flashy without being flamboyant. This could be the start of an impressive career. --Jeff Shannon
Studio: Sony Pictures Home EntRelease Date: 03/13/2007Run time: 105 minutesRating: R
Amazon.com:
As its title suggests, Layer Cake is a crime thriller that cuts into several levels of its treacherous criminal underworld. The title is actually one character's definition of the drug-trade hierarchy, but it's also an apt metaphor for the separate layers of deception, death, and betrayal experienced by the film's unnamed protagonist, a cocaine traffic middle-man played with smooth appeal by Daniel Craig (rumored at the time of this film's release to be on the short list for consideration as the next James Bond). Listed in the credits only as "XXXX," the character is trapped into doing a favor for his volatile boss, only to have tables turned by his boss's boss (Michael Gambon) in a twisting plot involving a stolen shipment of Ecstasy, a missing girl, duplicitous dealers, murderous Serbian gangsters, and a variety of lowlifes with their own deadly agendas. As adapted by J.J. Connolly (from his own novel) and directed by Matthew Vaughan (who earned his genre chops as producer of Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch), Layer Cake improves upon those earlier British gangland hits with assured pacing, intelligent plotting, and an admirable emphasis on plot-moving dialogue over routine action. Sure, it's violent (that's to be expected) and not always involving, but it's smarter than most thrillers, and Vaughan's directorial debut has a confident style that's flashy without being flamboyant. This could be the start of an impressive career. --Jeff Shannon
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- David Craig's Bond tryout?!?
I love this movie.Definitely one of my favorite movies ever.After seeing this, I knew David Craig was going to be the new generation of Bond.
He oozes charisma and style in this movie.From start to finish this movie keeps you engaged, mostly because of how well Craig does taking us through his characters roller coaster ride.It's funny how you are rooting for a drug dealer to win....that's how great the writing and acting is in this movie.
If you liked D Craig in ... Read More
Rating: 
- Is not in stock
Unfortunately Amazon is saying this is in stock (as with many other products on the website) -- yet days later you receive a later apologizing for the delay. Be aware of this if you are buying for Xmas
Rating: 
- Incomprehensible Cockney accents
Once you get past the at-times unintelligible Cockney - this was intended for Brit audiences, I guess - the film moves along at a decent clip, though the plot twists are hard to follow and the whole beginning is so slow as to be almost bad enough for the viewer to give up - as I did. I then re-inserted the disc a few days later, and found the pace to be picking up enough to watch it through to completion. The usual druggie gangster nonsense, with the requisite plot twists and double crosses, comes ... Read More
Rating: - Just a Bunch of Guys Having Some Fun
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Made Me Love Life Again
Amazingly complex plot woven with threads of delicious action and well written dialogue.
Good beyond all rational expectations.
- David Craig's Bond tryout?!?I love this movie.Definitely one of my favorite movies ever.After seeing this, I knew David Craig was going to be the new generation of Bond.
He oozes charisma and style in this movie.From start to finish this movie keeps you engaged, mostly because of how well Craig does taking us through his characters roller coaster ride.It's funny how you are rooting for a drug dealer to win....that's how great the writing and acting is in this movie.
If you liked D Craig in ... Read More
- Is not in stockUnfortunately Amazon is saying this is in stock (as with many other products on the website) -- yet days later you receive a later apologizing for the delay. Be aware of this if you are buying for Xmas
- Incomprehensible Cockney accentsOnce you get past the at-times unintelligible Cockney - this was intended for Brit audiences, I guess - the film moves along at a decent clip, though the plot twists are hard to follow and the whole beginning is so slow as to be almost bad enough for the viewer to give up - as I did. I then re-inserted the disc a few days later, and found the pace to be picking up enough to watch it through to completion. The usual druggie gangster nonsense, with the requisite plot twists and double crosses, comes ... Read More
- Just a Bunch of Guys Having Some FunWith 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 ... Read More
- Made Me Love Life AgainAmazingly complex plot woven with threads of delicious action and well written dialogue.
Good beyond all rational expectations.
