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Layer Cake [Blu-ray] | ![Layer Cake [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-3kdanhfL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Matthew Vaughn
Actors: Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller, Michael Gambon, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Category: DVD
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Rating:  135 reviews
Sales Rank: 11933
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: 043396171169
UPC: 043396171169
EAN: 0043396171169
ASIN: B000IFQLG4
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: March 13, 2007
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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
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/13/2007 Run time: 105 minutes Rating: R
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 135
 Colorful but underwhelming..... August 22, 2010
Jason Bean (Iowa City, IA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Layer Cake is an adaption of J.J. Connolly's excellent crime novel about an unnamed young drug dealer/cutter (Daniel Craig) who's trying to save enough money to retire from his criminal life. This film adaption written by the author and a directing debut for Mathew Vaughn is a credible but underwhelming effort.
While the plot of the film 'Layer Cake' follows more-or-less closely to the novel it never really feels like it goes anywhere. Everything you see in this movie you've seen in other gangster films, especially if you're a Guy Ritchie fan. That's not to say that it's bad or anything and director Vaughn uses some really colorful locales and has some great (and strange) use of music. Unfortunatly his camera work gets hung up on slow zooming and these close-ups of Daniel Craig's face which add nothing to the experience (at least not for me). The filmmakers might have intended for there to be some voice-over work in these close-ups but ultimatly any effect seems lost (though by the end I had a photographic memory of Daniel Craig's facial structure).
One thing I love about this film (and the novel) is how it uses dialogue to move the story forward as opposed to action. The dialogue is (usually) very snappy and the actors do a great job of bringing their colorful characters to life especially Daniel Craig, George Harris and Colm Meaney
Like I said, Layer Cake isn't a bad film at all it's just not a very memorable one. This WAS Mathew Vaughn's first film but he did a much better job with Stardust and Kick-Ass. If you're a crime film fan you might like this one but just don't expect anything you haven't seen before.
 Don't miss this movie. July 25, 2010
Lance Uppercut
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't know how popular this movie is but it's a definite must watch if you're into any kind of crime movies. It just pulls you in and you want to see what happens next. One thing I gotta say is that the soundtrack was very good and used well throughout.
 Italian mobs only, PLEASE! July 16, 2010
Michael Ledo (Windsor, SC United States)
Nothing like the British to screw up a good crime movie. I think Joe Pesci could have taken them all with one hand tied behind his back. The first part of the movie is a first person narration on how to be a successful middleman. The rest of the movie breaks all the rules established by the narration. There are a number of factions in this story competeing with each other making the plot complex at times. The movie is only mildly humerous as the plot twists create the humor and not the boring dialouge. Mr. X, our middleman wants out of the business. He is given a couple of tasks to perform, locate a girl and find a buyer for a million hits of stolen ecstasy. There is plenty of killing and beating people up. The sex and nudity is brief. The hot blonde on the cover is not a main chracter. Her appearances are brief and foreboding. There are no likeable characters. Everyone is a bad guy.
Good Movie July 14, 2010
Michael Watts (North Carolina)
I enjoyed this movie, had a pretty good story. It is a very quiet movie when they are talking and gets very loud during action sequences.
Excellent blu-ray transfer of a good movie July 6, 2010
K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States)
I liked Layer Cake enough to watch it again a few years later, and the blu-ray is a very nice upgrade. It's a well-shot film with many interesting angles and colorful moments which benefit from the hi-def. Director Vaughn doesn't have Ritchie's genius for camera movement but for his first effort behind the lens LC is decent enough, and Craig is about as good as he gets here, which is quite good.
Craig is upstaged by many of the supporting cast, though, especially Meaney and Gambon. Meaney is becoming the new Michael Caine, ubiquitous in most every Brit and Irish film of the last decade, but it's all to the good as he always delivers the goods, and LC is no exception. Gambon is also excellent as usual. The score by Lisa Gerrard is solid and she delivers some of her patented distant wails which work well here as they're never too in your face. Or ears.
The real hero of Layer Cake is JJ Connolly, writer of the screenplay and the novel it's based on. The movie has a perfect opening in a drugstore, which sums up our society's addiction to both drugs and pointless drug wars. If the whole film had stayed that tight this would be a modern classic, but it soon veers into semi-standard new Brit gangster film, though this is among the best of the bunch. The plot seems simple but we soon see how byzantine it all is, until the very end which is really a bit of a waste in some ways, though perhaps realistic, whatever that means in this context.
But I'd recommend Layer Cake in any case to all fans of sharp dialogue and interesting plot twists; if you liked The Usual Suspects and Lock Stock, this is their offspring and you're bound to like it too.
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