Synopsis
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
2004 Directed by Matthew Vaughn
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
Daniel Craig Sienna Miller Tom Hardy Colm Meaney George Harris Sally Hawkins Kenneth Cranham Jamie Foreman Michael Gambon Ben Whishaw Dragan Mićanović Stephen Walters Louis Emerick Dexter Fletcher Tamer Hassan Jason Flemyng Nathalie Lunghi Rab Affleck Burn Gorman Steve John Shepherd Daniel Moorehead Francis Magee Philip Howard Darren Sean Enright James Dodd Kelly-Marie Kerr Nick Thomas-Webster Don McCorkindale Budge Prewitt Show All…
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Mostly stupid but carried off with enough style. So, a Matthew Vaughn picture. Killer cast helps immensely, nice use of Duran Duran.
I hated this when I watched it for the first time about 15 years ago but now as my only reason for rewatch was eyefucking Daniel Craig I actually had a really good time.
Oh God.
I'm so quarantine horny.
There's a scene in this where Sienna Miller is sitting on top of him and instead of tearing his clothes to shreds she goes to the bathroom to change into slutty lingerie and in that time he gets abducted. Jesus! You should already have that lingerie on you. What a rookie mistake!
Allegedly this is the film that got Craig his 007 gig. According to imdb trivia Barbara Broccoli noticed his "performance" here and decided he's the man for the…
awful film - i hate how the title is stylised. ‘L4YER CAK3.’ shut UP. she’s so pretentious. you are NOT my gmail password
absolutely the type of film to be introducing minor characters called ‘crazy larry’ 1 hour in
I love the old-school, stylishly made, tonally bleak and ruthless British gangster economy/hierarchy thrillers (you know, the kind that Michael Caine and Bob Hoskins used to do back in the day) so much that not even Matthew Vaughn can fuck it up for me. Don't know why he thought his bad taste for needle drops and "clever" humor (which thankfully only briefly pop up here) was what he needed to lean into, instead of Daniel Craig brooding about the ugly job of killing. This is why you never got a shot at a Bond film, mate.
Recommended on my Make me watch your favourite list.
Matthew Vaughn has a superb track record as far as I'm concerned. And with Layer Cake he has done something quite extraordinary. He has made a gangster movie I enjoyed a lot. And that just doesn't happen very often.
Guy Ritchie headed the renaissance of the British gangster film with Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels. He gave the genre a face and that's it. While that style was interesting in the beginning, it was just that, there was not much else to it. Copied in many other films (most often in Richie's own), to me it quickly became repetitive and boring. My mistake, which turned out to be a blessing…
One of those movies that had me outright confused. Not because of the film itself, but because I mixed it up with another film that doesn't appear to exist. Maybe I'm misremembering and it wasn't Daniel Craig as the hero, but it centered around a type of covert agency, had very dynamic editing, and was quite stylish.
In any case, the movie was interesting, albeit a little confusing at the end. Nonetheless, the film never fails to delight, and you can quickly see how Craig had what it took to be the next Bond, and one of the finest. His screen presence is great, and the way he kills in cold blood or wields a gun is very James Bond-esque,…
Recommended by Prem Singh.
A month or two ago, my partner's older brother offered me £200 to do two days of interior decorating. Hard on cash at the time, I accepted. The house in question was quite out of the way, Seahouses area in the North of England. It took about an hour and a half to get there by car once you took traffic into account.
I love the guy, I do, he's kind and funny and always thinking of me. But that entire car journey, the guy went on and on about how his friend would run drugs in and out of Scotland, and how his other friend would hold giant bags of cocaine in his house for…
The best Guy Ritchie film Guy Ritchie never made.
It offers thought provoking themes of power, greed and working your way up in the world within the context of the world of drugs and crime that Ritchie often treats like a playground.
The title is a reference to the hierarchy of the criminal world, which has layers upon layers of complexity and there is always someone bigger than you waiting to swoop in and the what’s yours. It also helps frame the plot which is a dense layer cake of its own, consisting of many disparate narrative threads that the film must juggle and then tie together.
Though cleverly plotted, acted, directed, and written, the best that can be said…
Directed well by Matthew Vaughn, some great actors and daniel craig is very good here, but the plot is very confusing and I found as it went on very dull and slow. There were so many characters in this that when someone mentioned a name I couldnt remember who they were talking about.
A crime drama that is powered by an interesting storyline, clever plot threads, memorable characters, fine performances, great camerawork, solid soundtrack choices and intense actions. It also provides some good chucklesome moments. The convoluted screenplay demands your attention right through and feel that kinda worked in its favor. Layer cake endorsed. Daniel Craig was delightful. Among the others, Colm Meaney impressed me the most. Though a couple of flashbacks pulls the flow down, it still ends up a fun n entertaining watch.