Layer Cake“The successful drug dealer Mr. X plans his criminal career intermediating business with drugs without calling the attention, working with a small gang and honoring his payments with the suppliers. On the day planned for his early retirement, the powerful mobster Jimmy Price gives two assignments to him: find Charlie, the addicted daughter of his associate Eddie Temple and negotiate um million pills of high-quality ecstasy with the stupid smalltime gangster Duke. Mr. X hires two acquaintances crooks in a night-club to find Charlie, and he unexpectedly meets Duke's cousin Sidney with his sexy girlfriend Tammy and flirts with her. But Mr. X discovers that the ecstasy was stolen from the dangerous and wild Serbian drug lord Dragan that wants the head of Duke and the drugs back. Further, Eddie shows a tape proving that he has been double-crossed by Jimmy, and also wants the ecstasy. The smart Mr. X plots a scheme to resolve the situation and meet Tammy.”
3.5 stars
This film ain’t easy; you really got to pay attention because there is a lot going on. It has a feel of Snatch, but with a little more reality. By this I mean that Snatch, to me, is very tongue in cheek. The deaths are very over the top so they don’t have as much weight to them, but that’s intentional. This movie is much more down to earth and gritty.
It’s kind of odd to see Daniel Craig play this kind of role. As an American, I am very much a Johnny-come-lately to his career so I have really only seen him in the Bond films. Obviously in those movies he is the epitome of cool and always seems to be in control of the situation. But in this film, that is not the case. While his character is intelligent, he constantly seems to be adapting to outside factors that keep throwing him off his game. The feeling that his character is “in too deep” crosses your mind several times. Just when you think he is a step ahead of his antagonists, the plot will take a hard left turn.
There is one glaring problem with this movie, and I am not even going to pretend that my argument is unbiased or has any intellectual validity at all, but here goes. THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SIENNA MILLER!!! For me, she is one of the ten most beautiful women in Hollywood today and the fact that her screen time is limited to a combined 10 minutes is almost a crime against humanity. Granted, she does take full advantage of her all-too-tiny amount of screen time. In one scene she seductively dances with a cigarette just dangling from her lips and in another we get the great pleasure of seeing her change in to a black teddy with attached garters and askldjhsfdah;sd;asjk;ghd; . . . sorry, I passed out on the keyboard.
Anyway, in the end I think most people would be satisfied with this film. I didn’t think it was the greatest, but it did a well enough job of keeping my attention for the 105 minutes. And the ending will probably feel refreshing to those of us that are tired of the dull way that most of these shoot ‘em up flicks conclude. As the boss puts it, “Welcome to the Layer Cake.”
3.5 stars
This film ain’t easy; you really got to pay attention because there is a lot going on. It has a feel of Snatch, but with a little more reality. By this I mean that Snatch, to me, is very tongue in cheek. The deaths are very over the top so they don’t have as much weight to them, but that’s intentional. This movie is much more down to earth and gritty.
It’s kind of odd to see Daniel Craig play this kind of role. As an American, I am very much a Johnny-come-lately to his career so I have really only seen him in the Bond films. Obviously in those movies he is the epitome of cool and always seems to be in control of the situation. But in this film, that is not the case. While his character is intelligent, he constantly seems to be adapting to outside factors that keep throwing him off his game. The feeling that his character is “in too deep” crosses your mind several times. Just when you think he is a step ahead of his antagonists, the plot will take a hard left turn.
There is one glaring problem with this movie, and I am not even going to pretend that my argument is unbiased or has any intellectual validity at all, but here goes. THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SIENNA MILLER!!! For me, she is one of the ten most beautiful women in Hollywood today and the fact that her screen time is limited to a combined 10 minutes is almost a crime against humanity. Granted, she does take full advantage of her all-too-tiny amount of screen time. In one scene she seductively dances with a cigarette just dangling from her lips and in another we get the great pleasure of seeing her change in to a black teddy with attached garters and askldjhsfdah;sd;asjk;ghd; . . . sorry, I passed out on the keyboard.
Anyway, in the end I think most people would be satisfied with this film. I didn’t think it was the greatest, but it did a well enough job of keeping my attention for the 105 minutes. And the ending will probably feel refreshing to those of us that are tired of the dull way that most of these shoot ‘em up flicks conclude. As the boss puts it, “Welcome to the Layer Cake.”
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