Layer Cake (2005)

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Probably not as good now as it once was, but still worthy of a viewing! In the rear of its release, it seems to be 'smarter than your average' drug movie, but many similar have been out since.A good role for Daniel Craig, a minimal role for Tom Hardy.Part of most people's 'best of the British' list

This is just another of those continually stupid movies of continually Beavis and Butthead nonsense that the maniacs who make such movies feel powerful about, with the Bundy family fans being their goofy sheep and praising.There's no plot here. It's just people going through a contrived script by someone who doesn't know how to write, but is eager to be one of the Nazi propaganda machine.It's really just an excuse to kill the dark hair woman as often as possible, which is the only real goal of this movie, Nazi propaganda and brainwashing. That's it. Anyone who says it is anything more is missing the point of this chick flick. It's meant to depress young men, period. It's the same Hollywood hate formula we see over and over. New names are added to the mix of the demonic Nazi machine, and it's obvious the writer and director idolize Adolf Hitler, and want to keep his spirit alive. To be honest, this demonic spirit was in effect long before Hitler. He was just another part of it. It's not natural, but these human monsters possessed by the Nazi demon want to keep preaching that it is.The movie is just another bit of Hollywood Nazi preaching, and overkill. Fortunately, the script is so ridiculous that it can't convert anyone with an IQ over 51.33, but that still leaves a lot of fans. True, they're all Beavis, Butthead, Al Bundy, Peg Bundy, and the like, but they are too many.

Layer Cake is a British crime-drama about a successful cocaine dealer who must do two difficult tasks for his boss before he can retire. Layer Cake showed a lot of harsh realities about being in the crime world and how Daniel Craig's character tries so hard to complete his tasks so he can retire knowing that trying to drop out of the crime world is a really hard thing to do. Layer Cake was an excellent movie and one of the Daniel Craig's best movies before he was Bond. Great directorial debut of Matthew Vaughn, his style has grown in 4 films since his recent film was X-Men First Class. I wonder how I managed to miss this one when it came out. It may just have been an oversight as the market was filled with cockney gangster films back then and I wasn't that impressed with them.

Yes, Britain is famous for its classic and gritty gangster films (but then it's also got its fair share of pretty mundane and forgettable ones, too). Guy Ritchie made his name showing us the exploits of his working class (anti) heroes and, for a while, it seemed like every film was about the 'rougher' element from London. Then came Layer Cake. And, briefly, Ritchie's name was associated with it. You can see why. It does share certain traits of one of his films – gangsters, multiple plot lines and characters and, of course, the violence and double crossing.But, once you start watching it, you soon see that it's not just a poor clone, but something all of its own entirely. A pre-Bond Daniel Craig stars as the main character (of whom we deliberately never learn his name!) who is a class A drugs dealer, only not the type to hang round on dodgy street corners. He just produces the stuff for others to supply and snort, therefore he can tell himself (and us, the audience) that he's more of a respectable type of criminal.And, he's so respectable, that he's basically thinking of quitting the whole business (now that he's made his millions of course). Sadly, a very large spanner is thrown in his works when the local kingpin decides to utilise his services to find the missing daughter of a colleague. Now, this hardly fits in with Craig's usual skillsets, but then that's the point. It's all a bit too out of the blue to be above board. And, what follows is a chain reaction that leads to the afore-mentioned violence and double crossing.It's one of those films that you can't really have on in the background. You'll need to watch it. There are numerous characters who you'll need to keep track of so you can follow who's working for who and therefore who's about to stab who in the back. If you like your 'Richie-style' films then you should love this. Daniel Craig is excellent in the lead role (better than he is in Bond in my humble opinion) and the supporting cast all play their parts well. You'll only get the one chance to watch it through without knowing what's going to happen and I advice you sit down and spend some time getting to grips with it.Plus it's got a great soundtrack and Sienna Miller in – arguably – her finest role to date (*rolls eyes*).