What sets Layer Cake apart from the usual 'Just when I thought that I was out they pull me back in' films is a stunningly suave performance by...
May be a worthy successor to a busy genre, but it is not an inventive inheritor.
It’s a little bleak, a little twisted, a little gory, and a lot funny.
Slant Magazine April 20, 2005 Matthew Vaughn’s confident debut’s reserved pace and composed nastiness lends the action a matter-of-fact menace.
The special appeal of Layer Cake derives from its efficient, gripping story and from the personality of the unnamed protagonist.
There’s a proper lived-in believability about Layer Cake’s depiction of how the worlds of the rich, the criminal and the criminall...
A propulsive drug-world movie that dutifully covers similar ground in and around London: guns, chicks, inventive use of the F word, expensive...
A contemporary gangster film that both looks and feels like a Britnoir classic filtered through the Jam’s bang-on sense of style.
It’s slickly shot and enjoyable.
Layer Cake features all the doublecrosses, grasses and reversals of fortune that come as standard to the genre, but it is lifted by the uniformly e...
ae.freep.com May 27, 2005 As good as the story and direction may be, much of the film’s success is up to Daniel Craig.
This is one of those movies in which you simply pluck out what there is to entertain you and forget about the rest.
Craig is fascinating here as a criminal who is very smart, and finds that is not an advantage because while you might be able to figure out wh...
