Did you know Edit. Trivia It was Daniel Craig 's performance in this movie that caused producer Barbara Broccoli to take notice and think he might be a good fit for James Bond. Goofs Slavo and Dragan are supposed to be Serbians but they speak Romanian.
Quotes Eddie Temple : You're born, you take shit. Connections Featured in Becoming Bond User reviews Review. Top review. A nice slice of brit gangsters. The trailers to Layer Cake left me with mixed feelings. Usually when a trailer needs to draw reference to 'one's we made earlier' in this case Lock, Stock, and Snatch when the writer or director of said films has nothing to do with the project, the end result is a poor copycat.
After watching the film, I am more than impressed! Layer Cake introduces us once more to the world of the cockney gangsters, and the dealing of drugs. The medication of choice this time is Ecstacy, and the set up involves an up-and-coming name in the dealing trade being thrown a job by one of the big names. Sent to find a missing girl, and also buy and sell on a large shipment, it all seems like easy work.
However, as he soon finds, things are not always as they seem, and before long his life is at risk when the deal begins to go sour. For the first 20 minutes of the film I couldn't decide whether it was going to be a Lock, Stock, or Honest the dreadful All Saints film.
The film uses the obligatory 'catchy' tunes from the past 2 decades, and uses the same type of framing of scenes as the genre. For the first 20 minutes, whilst we were introduced rapidly to the characters in the tale, it was hard to discern where the plot was going, and even harder to care much about the players.
By the half way point I was engrossed! The plot twists and turns at various points throughout, and you do begin to care about the lead character and the associates around him. The film oozes cockney cool, and although not quite on par with the best of the genre, it is still a worthy, and very engrossing, offering from director Matthew Vaughn.
Stylishly shot, with a great soundtrack, this is one of those films that blokes will walk out of very pleased, but their partners may not feel the same way. Whilst not really violent or sexist in nature, this is a lads film through and through, and it is one cake that I want another slice of. FAQ 5. Why is the film called Layer Cake? What is the song that plays when?
Do we ever learn xxxx's real name? Details Edit. Release date June 3, United States. United Kingdom. English Romanian. And, for pure shock value, it contains a "didn't see that one coming" moment unlike anything in either of Ritchie's ventures into this genre.
When Layer Cake opens, life is grand for the nameless protagonist, played by Daniel Craig. He's a middle-man in drug transactions, and he follows a small list of rules that keep him safe from most of the risks inherent in his profession. Unfortunately, many of his associates - like tough guys Gene Colm Meaney and Morty George Harris - aren't as finicky, and Layer Cake 's leading man soon finds himself caught between a drug lord, Jimmy Price Kenneth Cranham ; a sinister businessman, Eddie Temple Michael Gambon ; and a stone-cold killer Dragan Micanovic.
It's not a comfortable place to be, since any one of those three will happily kill him if he doesn't come up with 1,, stolen ecstasy tablets.
In true gangster fashion, our hero plans a classic double-cross, but ends up underestimating at least one of his foes. Or does he? Layer Cake 's greatest virtue is that it's a lot of fun - if you like this sort of movie. It's a little bleak, a little twisted, a little gory, and a lot funny. The humor is dead-pan, much like in Lock and Snatch. Its unselfconscious nature is what allows it to work.
Vaughn, working from a script by J. Connolly who based it on his novel of the same name , never goes for the easy laugh. There are plenty of twists and turns to be navigated, but not as nearly as many as in Lock or Snatch. If you read this interview of the director, Matthew Vaughan, you would know that they gave a name to this anonymous character, for the movie. Quoting the below part from that interview. It's an interesting character for him to play, isn't it?
This man with no name In the book he's just anonymous. But in the script it's really weird. We didn't want to give him a name, but you have to call him something in the script, so he became "XXXX". The last line of the book is the last line of the movie. The studio wanted to cut it, but I told them it was really important. The fact that he doesn't have a name is what makes him so different.
He's Clint Eastwood, riding in on a horse, he doesn't give anything away. He's a chameleon. I think his name, or at least handle is King. At the end, his main partner says, "the king is dead, long live the king. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
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