Layer Cake
5 September 2005, early afternoon
I watched Layer Cake yesterday afternoon with Mezan and Dave. Layer Cake is somewhat similar to Snatch and Lock, Stock, and 2 Smoking Barrels, but is much more serious than those two Guy Ritchie films. Where as they are both a little bit over-the-top in their style and substance, Layer Cake aims to be a pretty serious look at the life of a British gangster. (Well, the sort of fictional exciting gangster they make movies about anyway.) The plot is pretty good, and the characters in the film are all pretty interesting; Colm Meaney plays another hard as nails cunt. The film also has a kick-ass soundtrack.
Man, even the bad reviews at Rotten Tomatoes make me want to watch this movie.
by rishi on September 6 2005, 2:44 am #
Seriously—all the bad review snippits make it sounds so good: A propulsive drug-world movie that dutifully covers similar ground in and around London: guns, chicks, inventive use of the F word, expensive-looking locations, designer stuff, and so on. And this is bad how?
by ramanan on September 6 2005, 12:39 pm #