Page 1 of Layer Cake - opinions

saw it over the weekend.

thought it was too much like `lock stock` all over again, but not as funny. good, but not great, and not a repeat watch for me. not even a `will buy` unless it`s like really cheap on sale.

any opinions?

Haven`t seen it but my mate has. He said the same as you - just trying to recreate a Lock Stock type film with all of the usual cardboard cutout characters. Seems that the Britsh film industry gets a hit and then slavishly tries to reproduce it over and over again.

I personally never liked all these UK gangster chic films - always thought that US was the real mccoy with the Mafia etc. Our version is just a pale imitation with boring lowlife thugs.

Andy

its class.. loved it.. very stylish and funny and violent. but the cops in disguise thing was a little beyond belief.

Not seen it yet, just wish they`d change the poster.
It`s beginning to hurt my neck when driving.

Snaps

Saw this yesterday and quite liked it. Its by no means a bad film but it isn`t as good a film as the press have made it out to be IMHO.

I think the problem with Layer Cake is that people went to see it expecting to see another Lock Stock or Snatch which this film definatly wasnt instead you get a quite serious gangster film with only slights bit of comedy. I thought it was really good and definatly one of the best films I have seen recently expect for Saw!

no actually i knew nothing about it aside from what the ads showed (which wasnt alot at all).

as far as saw, again i thought seven did it better. i got more scares outta resident evil than saw.

I enjoyed `Layer Cake` - it was much more enjoyable than `Snatch`, and although it wasn`t up to the standard of `Lock, Stock`, it`s clear that Vaughn has a lot of talent behind the camera. Kudos to Daniel Craig, too.


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I enjoyed `Layer Cake` - it was much more enjoyable than `Snatch`,

I thought Layer Cake was good too, much better than Lock Stock (which is way overrated in my opinion), but Snatch is in a league of it`s own in terms of comedy value... nearly everything about it is funny. Lock Stock was kinda like the "pitch", and Snatch was the final product (just the way I see it).

Layer Cake is completely different though, more serious and polished. Doubt it will have the long lasting appeal of Snatch though.