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Layer Cake (Widescreen)
from Sony Pictures Classics
starring Daniel Craig, Kenneth Cranham, Dexter Fletcher, Michael Gambon, Colm Meaney
directed by Matthew Vaughn

Features:

• AC-3
• Color
• Dolby
• Dubbed

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Just a Bunch of Guys Having Some Fun
  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... more info

• Made Me Love Life Again
  Amazingly complex plot woven with threads of delicious action and well written dialogue.
  Good beyond all rational expectations.

• MATTHEW VAUGHN, OPUS 1
  ***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... more info

• Dull but not Totally Boring
  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... more info

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