Layer Cake (2004)

Title: 'Layer Cake' (2004)
Genre: Brit Grit
Rating: 8.75/10

"Somebody's about to get a *fucking slap*"

Dude, hot. So friggin' hot.

Same producer who gave us 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' (2000) and 'Snatch' (2002). Both of those are awesome, but this is the cream of the cream.

Two minutes into this movie I stopped it with the intention of saving it for a bonofide movie night with friends. But it was so g'damn awesome I treated myself and then enjoyed it all the more a couple of days later, the second time through.

First off, the opening song 'Hayling', by FC Kahuna, is one of my all time favorite tracks. It's also one of the greatest music videos ever produced. There are two music videos for that same song. The one in wider circulation is pretty decent, but the balls out, mind fuck video can be found as an extra on the 'Confidence' DVD. A crap sandwich of a movie, but one that I purchased just to get a hold of the 'Hayling' video. Anyway, point being, the moment this film opened, my brain performed a core dump of all existing seratonin and I was rolling like an E-tard.

The lead in this movie, Daniel Craig, needs to be in everything. Someone told me he may be the next Bond. Not what I've heard, but a big gold star to the suits if they get that one right. A consummate bad ass who'd best not be wasted fencing Madonna or lusting after Halle Berry. Take notes, you 00-idiots.

"You know why people like you can't leave this business? Because they make too much money for people like me."

The dialogue in this movie is crackin' like a twiglet.

This is Matthew vaughn's first directorial effort and he is the new Danny Boyle. Insane. You get the feeling that every shot in this movie has been talked out over an evening of England's best pints and some inspired moments of creative genius. Legend. There's nothing better than an autuer with a script that could jump start a fucking aircraft carrier. Everybody involved is on point like a plate of auderves.

The river ran through the casting department like a fucking whip. The dude from Star Trek finally gets to show that he's so much more than the tool in charge of flipping the energize switch. And the rest of the cast look like people they pulled out of a soup line who turn out to have dirty mutant acting chops that eviscerate your face and use it to mop up the spillage on the wet bar.


Other notes:

Corrugated metal is the new chrome.

'Behind with the rent' is the new euphemism for a boy who likes boys.

Main characters without names work in ways one would never expect (see 'Kill Bill')

Proper use of color equals class, class and class.

Judgment: own it.