Layer Cake
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When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
What critics thought
Matthew Vaughn's directorial debut landed as a tightly wound British crime thriller that critics found more grounded and genuinely menacing than the Guy Ritchie films Vaughn had previously produced. Daniel Craig's performance drew the most sustained attention, with reviewers divided not on its quality but on how to characterize it — somewhere between ice-cold professional and street-smart improviser. The film's class-world atmosphere, where criminal and respectable money blur together, was singled out as its most distinctive texture.
“The movie was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who produced Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, and this one works better than those films because it doesn't try so hard to be clever and tries harder to be menacing”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“There's a proper lived-in believability about Layer Cake's depiction of how the worlds of the rich, the criminal and the criminally rich intersect.”
Leslie Felperin·Variety
“Fast, convulsive, and densely exciting new British gangster thriller”
Owen Gleiberman·Entertainment Weekly
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Crime
Cast & Crew
Matthew VaughnDirector
Daniel CraigXXXX
Sienna MillerTammy
Tom HardyClarkie
Colm MeaneyGene
George HarrisMorty
Sally HawkinsSlasher
Kenneth CranhamJimmy Price
Jamie ForemanDuke
Michael GambonEddie Temple
Ben WhishawSidney
Dragan MićanovićDragan
Stephen WaltersShanks
Lisa GerrardComposer
Ilan EshkeriComposer
Ben DavisCinematographyLayer Cake
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
What critics thought
Matthew Vaughn's directorial debut landed as a tightly wound British crime thriller that critics found more grounded and genuinely menacing than the Guy Ritchie films Vaughn had previously produced. Daniel Craig's performance drew the most sustained attention, with reviewers divided not on its quality but on how to characterize it — somewhere between ice-cold professional and street-smart improviser. The film's class-world atmosphere, where criminal and respectable money blur together, was singled out as its most distinctive texture.
“The movie was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who produced Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, and this one works better than those films because it doesn't try so hard to be clever and tries harder to be menacing”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“There's a proper lived-in believability about Layer Cake's depiction of how the worlds of the rich, the criminal and the criminally rich intersect.”
Leslie Felperin·Variety
“Fast, convulsive, and densely exciting new British gangster thriller”
Owen Gleiberman·Entertainment Weekly
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Crime
Cast & Crew
Matthew VaughnDirectorDaniel CraigXXXXSienna MillerTammyTom HardyClarkieColm MeaneyGeneGeorge HarrisMortySally HawkinsSlasherKenneth CranhamJimmy PriceJamie ForemanDukeMichael GambonEddie TempleBen WhishawSidneyDragan MićanovićDraganStephen WaltersShanksLisa GerrardComposerIlan EshkeriComposerBen DavisCinematographyStream
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