Berry, sugar and yeast smells mix together with light rubbery fumes, reminiscent of dates, cardamom and Now and Laters candy with hints of spicy rubber and pine. But his boss Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) has two final jobs XXXX must do before he can collect his figurative gold watch. Though I've only seen Daniel Craig in three of his many films (the other two were THE ROAD TO PERDITION and THE JACKET), he's clearly one of those actors who never looks or sounds the same from role to role, so if he does indeed end up being Pierce Brosnan's successor as James Bond as rumored, it'll be interesting to see how he fares playing the same character in more than one film! An actor every bit as capable as current British flavor-of-the-season Jude Law but handsome in a rougher, more broken-nosed way, Craig’s range and dapper appearance here may finally help him break out as a star Stateside.

I can IMPOSSIBLY outline the plot of Matthew Vaughn's Layer Cake, so I'll just say it's about a nameless guy (Daniel Craig) doing some criminal stuff in London. Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast and Paul McGuigan's Gangster No 1 showed how Brit-noir can still be done.

Layer Cake's calming effects and consistent pain relief are both good reasons for me to return to it for future happy hour and evening grill sessions, keeping me high-flying and sociable. I was really looking forward to seeing Matthew Vaughn's turn at directing a film and what better genre to see him make his debut in than the British gangster genre especially after his roles in the fabulous 'Lock,Stock...' and 'Snatch' even though they were Guy Ritchie's. Matthew Vaughn produced Guy Ritchie's mockney villain adventures of yore, and now he's directed one of his own, taking us on the most unwelcome trip down memory lane imaginable. Is there a strain you'd like to see profiled? Layer Cake - Prins la înghesuială. I saw it a about a month ago, but was reminded to write this review, after reading that the main actor, Craig, was being considered to be the next James Bond. Somebody had better tell me about their next bake sale, or I'm officially a loser. Sex, Drugs, Violence. Guy Ritchie went from making crime movies to Disney blockbusters. I went into Layer Cake with no expectations. This was something of a sleeper hit and you can understand why it wasn't an overnight success on its release in 2004 . " The acting was good, script was tight and the film was well cast. :-) One of the things I liked about LC is that the protagonist, while thoughtful and competent, is never quite as clever as he thinks he is; somehow everybody manages to be one step ahead of him, if only because they're all so damned unpredictable. 11/10. Decorating Supplies Kit w/offset spatula set, icing bench scraper, cake boards. Regizat de Matthew Vaughn. But Vaughn’s confidently constructed, sleekly designed tale of a drug dealer contemplating retirement offers more than just a collage of movie refs stitched together with black humor. Consider Layer Cake the Lock, Stock of Swamp Boys' ascension in the cannabis world, because this … Can't recommend this movie enough. Looks: Close-up photos of Layer Cake look like those of a hairy spider, with such thick, fuzzy trichomes on the fan leaves and certain buds that you can't even see the shades of lime green and light-purple calyxes vying for attention underneath. FAQ "Layer Cake," the helming debut for Guy Ritchie's producer Matthew Vaughn, unfolds in the same Blighty underworld milieu as did Ritchie's best known movies. Fine supporting turns in well-written roles make this a meaty pie. Director Matthew Vaughn has been best known as Guy Ritchie's producer, but in his directorial debut Vaughn is like Martin Scorsese to Ritchie's Barry Sonnenfeld (that's meant as a compliment to all concerned, I assure you). Soon he is out of his depth in a situation for which possible adjectives include lairy, moody and tasty. We encourage you to read our updated PRIVACY POLICY and COOKIE POLICY. Layer Cake filled the void nicely. The cast is competent, and I've gotta say, I've always admired Colm Meaney, from his "Star Trek" days on down. That said LAYER CAKE sticks out from the Guy Ritchie clones because of its leading man and its director with Daniel Craig and Mathew Vaughn going on to bigger and better things . Somebody there is a good programmer!). 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It's back to the grim late-90s era of movies like Rancid Aluminium and Final Cut: that Uncool Britannia epoch when terrible Brit gangster films got made by the metric tonne. Usually when a trailer needs to draw reference to 'one's we made earlier' (in this case Lock, Stock, and Snatch) when the writer or director of said films has nothing to do with the project, the end result is a poor copycat. Seven years ago, I sat in a movie theatre with little to no expectations for the viewing of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, a British crime/comedy/drama from producer Michael Vaughn. Like much of the crap that comes out of that upper middle class system that professes to be the British Film Industry (it started back in the day with the BFI with all its cronies and has genetically modified into where we are now with the so called British Film Commission). 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Drug lord Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) has one last job for him his cohorts, Jimmy wants him to negotiate a deal between himself & the Duke (Jamie Foreman) who has just stolen a million ecstasy tablets from Serbian war criminal drug dealers from Amsterdam & find a potential buyer as well. After watching the film, I am more than impressed! It's a well made but unnecessary confusing movie to watch. In fact, strain discoveries might be even better. We've spotted it at 1136 Yuma, Frosted Leaf, the Green Solution, Higher Grade, KrystaLeaves, Peak MJ and Universal Herbs, but I'm willing to bet that far more shops are carrying Layer Cake. | Layer Cake's chirpy high is suited for happy hour and evening grilling sessions. Layer Cake Cert 15 Peter Bradshaw Friday 1 October 2004 The Guardian. :-) In any case, Craig certainly lives up to the "new Steve McQueen" rep that LC has garnered him.

It starts out with the main character (XXXX) and narrator cheerfully extolling the virtues of the drug industry when you are careful and organised like he is. Layer Cake, a 2004 twist of cocaine and violence starring a pre-007 Daniel Craig and an even younger Tom Hardy, is another slept-on British crime flick, but I was late to that one. Clearly one of the best of an already outstanding crop. Even though he wants to stay away from the sharp end, he takes the jobs and tries to deal with the Duke and his crew of Chavs. Layer Cake Cert 15 Peter Bradshaw Friday 1 October 2004 The Guardian. A film that stands up to Lock Stock and Snatch. Make a financial contribution or sign up for a newsletter, and help us keep telling Denver's stories with no paywalls. Dull & turgid British gangster flick that has no spark. Just to make this easier for some of you: if you are a big fan of the Guy Ritchie film-making method (e.g. Harris’ mellow Morty, at first an apparent channeling of Danny Glover in a stereotypical black sidekick role, spectacularly upends expectations with a burst of violence.

It helps that Vaughn gets excellent performances from Daniel Craig as our cool but in-over-his-head unnamed antihero (usually films and books that refuse to name their main character strike me as trying too hard to be clever, but it works here), Michael Gambon nearly stealing the show as a cultured but ruthless narcotics kingpin, Colm Meaney and THE INTERPRETER's George Harris as our protagonist's partners in crime, and many folks from Guy Ritchie's films. Metacritic Reviews. I'm as heterosexual a gal as they come, but after seeing lithe, leggy Miller strip down to black lingerie and garters, I couldn't help thinking, "That Jude Law is one lucky guy!" Director Matthew Vaughn is impressive, even though there are a couple of moves that are kinda, well, ill-advised, he keeps the pacing fast enough to keep you off-balance much of the time. While the hero begins to suspect he’s been sent on a suicide mission, he discovers a reason to live when he falls in lust with Tammy (Sienna Miller), the slinky g.f. of the Duke’s nephew Sidney (Ben Whishaw), on a nightclub dance floor in a luminously lensed sequence that packs a nice slo-mo erotic wallop. Mis-sold as a more art house friendly addition to the Guy Ritchie school of crime films, Layer Cake is a unique and remarkable experience. Uniform tops across the board, and I took it down well inside two months. I look forward to seeing what he'll do next! Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Gangster movies used to be an American staple; during the heyday of Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, they rivaled the Western as a particularly American film genre. The Movie is very well shot and directed, all Actors deliver flawless performances, but the Storytelling relies entirely on arbitrary Plot Twists.