disgusting, overrated, pointless

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Layer CakeIts fast paced gripping screenplay that enfolds in each phase as it ages on screen with witty humor and complex yet amusing characters blends in perfectly creating a brilliant gangsta rap environment that is although palpable but still fails to connect with the audience. J.J. Connelly's keen adaptation (and it's short runtime) helps survive this feature where even Mathew Vaughn; the director, is supporting thoroughly and is convincing too. Daniel Craig holds tightly on to its part but seems a bit distracted to carry the whole feature on its shoulder. Layer Cake fails on creating the impact of character's emotion and the drama that come along with on screen which ultimately fails to communicate with the viewers and justify them with enough reason to convince them.

Layer Cake is a British crime-drama about a successful cocaine dealer who must do two difficult tasks for his boss before he can retire. Layer Cake showed a lot of harsh realities about being in the crime world and how Daniel Craig's character tries so hard to complete his tasks so he can retire knowing that trying to drop out of the crime world is a really hard thing to do. Layer Cake was an excellent movie and one of the Daniel Craig's best movies before he was Bond. Great directorial debut of Matthew Vaughn, his style has grown in 4 films since his recent film was X-Men First Class. I wonder how I managed to miss this one when it came out. It may just have been an oversight as the market was filled with cockney gangster films back then and I wasn't that impressed with them.

.. you've got two of the most captivating people on the planet.. and you only make use of one of the two... not sufficient. When she is on-screen she is way dynamic.. but look back this entire film and add up the scant few minutes she's there, it's lacking. The script gives little to capture. This is an actor driven production.. and although there are several very good cameo roles, they're not enough to carry the full production. No question, it was not deemed to be a male/ female story-line.. but with such two special actors, the viewing audience feels as if it's been cheated. With just a bit of deliberate forethought it could have been so much more.

Daniel Craig does well in the role of a middleman between the higher-echelon drug dealers and the users. He's asked by his superior to do one last job. And at that point I got lost. I wish these blokes would learn to speak proper English so that a educated end tacitful man such as myself could unnerstand them. I mean, really. "Child" comes out "chow." And "Pal" becomes "pow." It's pretty violent, although the violence isn't dwelt on with the kind of relish we find in American horror movies. Okay, a lopped off head here and there but they're tastefully half hidden under the blue ice and soft drinks in the cooler.Craig is constantly referred to as "a smart fellow." That, at any rate, is what the superb Michael Gambon calls him. Geeze, Gambon could easily be on Mount Rushmore with much alteration in size -- a monument of a face made up of an infinite number of wrinkles and folds of flesh.Others have compared Craig to Steve McQueen in "Bullet" but I don't know why. Craig gets the stuffing beaten out of him, and he hates guns, and he bleats with fear when they hang him over the edge of a rooftop. But, though he may not be cool, there is a faint physical resemblance to McQueen.There are some nice directorial touches too, as well as some crummy ones, as in the scene in which the camera takes the POV of a victim being beaten half to death by a huge black guy.Definitely worth a watch if you can follow the twisted plot and the dialog that serves as trailway markers.