Layer Cake Reviews

Only the accents are thicker than double-crosses in a thriller that's stylish and sleek - note lyrically appropriate use of Duran Duran's "Ordinary World" in one sequence - but also assuredly delirious, ethically hefty and unpredictably treacherous.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

"Layer Cake" is a stylized British noir full of clever twists, biting dialogue, and plenty of ironic violence.

Full Review | Original Score: B

A história bem amarrada é beneficiada ainda pelo senso de humor seco e eficaz, ao passo que o elenco confere charme a um bando de personagens inescrupulosos e a direção de Vaughn, associada à inventiva montagem, torna o filme sempre instigante.

| Original Score: 4/5

[A] fun, snappy crime caper that begins with a wryly understated take on the "one-last-job-and-I'm-out" subgenre.

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Intense story about low-level organized crime figures embroiled in a deadly conspiracy.

Full Review | Original Score: B

protagonist's narration puts the film's complex plot into much broader economic, political and cultural context.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

A smart thrill ride with one magnificent finish.

| Original Score: A-

Fun stuff indeed, even if you might need the subtitles to help decipher all the Britspeak.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

It does nothing revolutionary, but it handles the basics with entertaining aplomb.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Just following what is going on is a big job, but the film has its rewards.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Layer Cake is not the most original or memorable picture in the world, but it's a great calling card for Vaughn.

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Clean, crisp and gratifying, you'd be hard pressed to find a better British film this year.

Full Review | Original Score: 85/100

This is one of the few movies for which I can't tell you the name of the "hero."

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

It's nothing we haven't seen before, but Vaughn invests it with enough style and energy to make it worth the trip.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

I like Layer Cake a lot.

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...a delicious crime melodrama, with colorful characters, lots of action and violence, double and triple crosses, and a few fresh surprises of its own.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

...Michael Vaughn, has cooked up a tasty treat in his directorial debut, somewhere between Mike Hodges' cool and Guy Ritchie's out-of-control Smoking Barrels.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It's occasionally taut and clever enough to hold audience attention, but ultimately has little substance to accompany its cool exterior.

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Crime caper in the style of Guy Ritchie, but better.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Nimbly dances through a handful of plot twists as we track who set up whom, and who hired whom to whack whom.

| Original Score: 3/4