| Layer Cake (Full Screen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Matthew Vaughn
Actors: Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller, Michael Gambon, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  115 reviews
Sales Rank: 21061
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Special Edition, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Romanian (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 106
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: COLD12217D
ISBN: 1404994351
UPC: 043396122178
EAN: 9781404994355
ASIN: B0009X7BD2
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: August 23, 2005
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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
Product Description
Our hero has two last jobs to complete: locate the junkie daughter of a chum of his volatile gangster boss & broker the sale of an enormous load of ecstasy. In the process he must abandoned his self-styled rule of criminal conduct designed of course to keep him removed from the dirty work. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 10/23/2007 Starring: Daniel Craig Sienna Miller Run time: 105 minutes Rating: R Director: Matthew Vaughn
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Just a Bunch of Guys Having Some Fun July 13, 2008
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 some of the language and the accents on some of the characters are very thick.)
 Made Me Love Life Again July 4, 2008
Amazingly complex plot woven with threads of delicious action and well written dialogue.
Good beyond all rational expectations.
MATTHEW VAUGHN, OPUS 1 May 19, 2008
***1/2 2004. Based on J.J. Connolly's Layer Cake, this film was directed by the British director Matthew Vaughn. London. Daniel Craig is told by his boss to purchase the loot offered by the Duke and his gang. But this loot was robbed in the Netherlands from a local Serbian drug lord who's not happy at all. With David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises (Widescreen Edition) and John Mackenzie's The Long Good Friday - Criterion Collection, you'll have with LAYER CAKE a near complete overview of the London underground described in cinema. Recommended.
 Dull but not Totally Boring April 11, 2008
Do not watch this movie expecting Snatch or Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. Even though the source material has some fun in it, similar to the two previously mentioned films, the life is stripped out of Layer Cake in this crime world quasi-drama where 3 story lines (well... 3 *main* story lines) intersect at one person whose life gets turned upside down in an instant.
But all the story lines lay flat. There are no characters that you really care about enough to stay with. They feel almost too polished because they are supposed to be uber-cool drug dealers. But that also makes them very forgetable. There is no character development that makes them jump off the page. This makes the movie dull.
It is not a total loss though. There are cool concepts. Guilt of murder, retribution, and endless double crossing are just a few. None are taken to full developement, but are good points to ponder what could have been. There are nice cinematic shots, which is also interesting. And there are a few points (including the ending) that I think were pleasant departures from the norm. These factors make it 'not boring.'
In feel, it actually reminded me of 'Lucky Number Slevin.' Not in story line (although the crime bosses and double cross components are there), but rather in overall style. That movie is better than Layer Cake. I would recommend that movie before this one. If you are a Daniel Craig fan, I would get this on sale somewhere. Don't pay top dollar.
Layer Cake (Blu-Ray) April 6, 2008
My home theatre screen was electrified with this wonderful Blu-Ray movie. The movie was received in a timely manner and in excellent condition. I shall order more Blu-Ray as soon as they are on sale.
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