Layer Cake

 

Layer Cake 2004

• Director: Matthew Vaughn
• Based on book: no
• Cast: Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller, Michael Gambon, Sally Hawkins, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman, Burn Gorman, George Harris, Colm Meaney, Ben Wishaw
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Daniel Craig – Knives Out, James Bond etc, Defiance, The Golden Compass, Infamous, Road to Perdition, Hotel Splendide, Elizabeth
• Sienna Miller – High-Rise, Stardust, Factory Girl, Alfie
• Michael Gambon – Victor & Abdul, The Hollow Crown, The Casual Vacancy, Quirke, Quartet, Harry Potter etc, Doctor Who, The King’s Speech, The Book of Eli, Cranford, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Gosford Park, Longitude, Sleepy Hollow, Mary Reilly
• Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water, Maudie, The Hollow Crown, x+y, Great Expectations, Made in Dagenham, Never Let Me Go, An Education, Happy-Go-Lucky, Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky, Vera Drake
• Tom Hardy – Venom, Dunkirk, The Revenant, Legend, Mad Max Fury Road, The Dark Knight Rises, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Inception
• Jamie Foreman – Hustle, Doctor Who, Sleepy Hollow, Elizabeth, Nil by Mouth
• Burn Gorman – Imperium, Pacific Rim, The Dark Knight Rises, Bonekickers, Colour Me Kubrick
• George Harris – Harry Potter
• Colm Meaney – One Chance, Parked, The Van, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain, The Last Mohican, The Commitments
• Ben Whishaw – James Bond etc, London Spy, Suffragette, The Zero Theorem, Cloud Atlas, Richard II, The Tempest, Bright Star
• Why? The cast
• Seen: 12 September 2022      

       XXX (Craig) is a businessman who just happens to deal in cocaine. He’s successful, and rich, and he’s going to retire after his next deal.

       That’s what he plans but things rarely go according to plans.

       What makes this run-of-the-mill bad guy drug film is seeing the pre-Bond Craig, Hawkins in a small roll as a gun-toting druggie, Whishaw as a wimpy wannabe tough guy, Harry Potter’s fellow magician from the Ministry of Magic, aka George Harris, as a nasty powerful drug deal middleman, not to mention Dumbledore as a sleazy zillionaire.

       Other than that, it’s definitely not my cup of tea. Yawn. For these actors only 

2 * of 5