For a movie that looked and started promising it quickly became a convoluted storyline with too many names and things going on at once to follow and eventually even care about.

Did somebody forget how to write a proper script? Maybe the writers were on some the drugs from the movie, because this thing is all over the place and way too annoying to follow

Good directing saves an unnecessarily convoluted plotline (victim of bringing a novel to the screen).

LAYER CAKE IS AN ACTION COMEDY CRIME DRAMA THRILLER STARRING DANIEL CRAIG, SIENNA MILLER,
LATE MICHAEL GAMBON, TOM HARDY, JAMIE FORMAN, SALLY HAWKINS, TAMER HASSAN, COLM MEANEY AND THE PEACEMAKER STAR MARCEL IURES AND FROM MATTHEW VAUGHAN THE DIRECTOR OF STARDUST, KICK-ASS, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS AND KINGSMAN TRILOGY AND I RENTED ON DVD.

I don't know why people on here think the script was a mess or hard to follow. The Layer Cake will not go down as an all-time classic, but it was pretty good - besides, "classics" are only good in your memory banks. Once you revisit them years later 9/10 they are no longer the classic you thought it was.
Lots of twists throughout the movie and the finale - I didn't see that coming when it arrived!
8.5/10

The film that got Daniel Craig cast as James Bond.

Some sort of insight in how the social structure works for doing not legal activities.

One should pay good attention, I found it easy to get confused quickly. It does all work beautifully together in the end.

God, this movie is always such an effortlessly fun watch. Smart, charming, and surprising.

Michael Gambon's "layer cake" speech, while a poor attempt for Eddie to sound magnanimous after [spoiler]ripping everyone off,[/spoiler] adds so much gravitas to the already satisfying conclusion.

If you've only seen the version where [spoiler]Tammy and XXXX drive off into the sunset[/spoiler] at the end I highly recommend hunting down the alternate ending that _really_ puts a fine point on XXXX's last few words.

Also, baby-faced Tom Hardy is almost still unrecognizable, even though I know it's him every time.

Daniel Craig being really great...in a film that's decent at best. Dragged down by a seriously over-complicated plot, and a somewhat weird pacing. There are glimpses of what is to come, but this is too much Guy Ritchie "wannabe", and not that much original Matthew Vaughn. Probably would have been a better experience if this script had been given over to Ritchie in the first place...

_Layer Cake_ is a stylish British crime drama with a keen eye for cinematography. Daniel Craig's performance as a savvy amateur crook already gets mentioned frequently, but I'd like to highlight Matthew Vaughn's slick directing, crafting some of the slickest transitions and interesting camera work depicting deaths and pivotal moments in the film. You can almost glimpse the blueprint of his future projects like _First Class_ and _Kingsmen_.

The script might not break new grounds; it offers the expected crime film twists and turns, but enough to keep you glued to your seat and enjoying the ride--as long as you get your eyes fixated on the screen and not on your phone like most Netflix goers nowadays. The film veers into a Fargo-esque vibe as events spiral out of control as the characters straddling through the chaos. As with Fargo, there is no real focus on making them "interesting" and just a depiction of how they navigate through the haywire they got themselves into. In the end, everything is artfully resolved.

My god, I absolutely hate the films that end up killing up the main protagonist. Tell me whatever you want, but for me, movies are a fantasy, not a reality check. So, this movie is absolute garbage. Full stop.

Better plot and story line

Another favorite..as well as USUAL SUSPECTS

I would give it a 8/10 but too many names and confusing plot after one hour.It became wayyy complicated and it could be better.

More gangster glamorising. Some of violence is completely mindless and sometimes I wondered what was going on or what the point was. It goes from one crime plot to the next with the types of characters you expect.

Maybe i wasn't in to the movie but i didn't understand anything out of the plot

Still a good crime movie. Not as good as the early Ritchie's but very stylish on its own merits.

I'd have loved a director's cut at some point these last 15 years to beef out the ending a little more. Or have I missed it?


7.75/10

Level "Entertaining" • 6 :heart: • You may or may not enjoy this.

With a runtime of 1 hour and 45 minutes long, this is a Guinness World Record for the longest movie audition for Daniel Craig as James Bond.

I hope he gets the role.

This movie stars every relevant young British actor from 2004 before they got swallowed by the big franchise machine. The acting is really great, I love some of the zany performances in this, but ultimately the film is just fine. You can feel that it’s a condensed version of a book, and it’d probably work a lot better as a limited series. There’s too much exposition and haphazard storytelling in this film adaptation (you probably need to watch it a few times in order to fully comprehend it), and none of the characters (of which there are too many) besides the one played by Daniel Craig are remotely interesting. The filmmaking makes up for a lot though. The editing of this movie is beautiful, it has a great sense of rhythm and pacing. The cinematography is also excellent and the score’s pretty alright too. Matthew Vaughn’s very restrictive with the use of close-ups here, which makes the film feel bigger in scope. You’ll probably remember certain bits and visuals from this movie, but the picture as a whole is only mildly impressive.

6/10

movie sucked.. I have no other way to explain it.. waste of time