Layer Cake [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of Layer Cake [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I just got this movie today.I am a Daniel Craig fan so I really loved this movie.If you like accion and a cute guy, this is it.Movie Review: Great version of Layer Cake
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a A+ version of Layer Cake. The picture is stunning. If you want to own this movie definitely by this over a DVD.Movie Review: Excellent blu-ray transfer of a good movie
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Movie Review: Excellent Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is the reason Craig Daniels was picked to be James Bond. It's not a Bond-type movie, but it has a good story, a lot of action and intrigue, and it has a spectacular cast, given how small their budget was. (They even got to use a Rolling Stones song! Listen to the director's commentary for details in the scene featuring "Gimme Shelter"! Er, after you've already watched the whole movie, of course...)
I have only one (extraordinarily) small complaint. The Blu-ray is a few years old. Sadly, that means that if you buy it now (I write this on Dec. 26, 2010) you will find that the clear plastic of the case has warped and wrinkled from all its time sealed behind the shrink wrap the BD comes in. It happens to all DVD and Blu-ray cases that remain shrink-wrapped too long. As I said, a completely minor complaint, but it does somewhat detract from the aesthetic of the movie's case.
In any event, that does not diminish the movie itself, which is well worth buying!
Movie Review: Daniel Craig shows why he is 007
Summary: 4 Stars
A fine movie that displays why Daniel Craig was chosen for the latest 007 films. One of the best of the recent British mobster movies, it is difficult to understand the Queen's English, but the action and storyline are far better than most of this genre.