I don't want to waste too much time typing about Layer Cake, but I feel a deep sense of responsibility to say something to those of you lucky enough to have not seen this film. There's nothing I can do for people who have and like it.
First off- The ending is nearly identical to Carlito's Way.
The plot twists are arbitrary, simply there to be plot twists (and there are so many you just don't care about any single character anymore).
The main character makes Roger Moore look like the most masculine actor to ever play a "ladies man" (FYI- to those of you who might have missed it, Roger Moore is about as Masculine as Harvey Fierstein). Daniel Craig is the British version of Andy Dick, only imagine Andy Dick if he had always been cast in drama.
This was the longest movie ever made and it was less than 2 hours, it is an Einsteinian paradox, it absorbs years of your life in its totally co-opted and oppressively dense script. I started watching this 2 hours ago at the age of 31 and I am now 47 years old.
There is not an original thought in the whole thing, it's almost as if it has been so widely mistaken for inventive because it takes so much from so many sources that you lose track halfway and in the absolute deluge of convoluted theft made nonsense by the writer you are too dizzied to think it is anything else but genius. It is not.
Dear screenwriter: we love hacks, but only when they realize they are what they are and write what they are capable of. Don't try to be Mamet when you would do us all a favor being the anonymous well paid idiot who cranks out the same movie over and over again.
Awful. Awful. Awful.
First off- The ending is nearly identical to Carlito's Way.
The plot twists are arbitrary, simply there to be plot twists (and there are so many you just don't care about any single character anymore).
The main character makes Roger Moore look like the most masculine actor to ever play a "ladies man" (FYI- to those of you who might have missed it, Roger Moore is about as Masculine as Harvey Fierstein). Daniel Craig is the British version of Andy Dick, only imagine Andy Dick if he had always been cast in drama.
This was the longest movie ever made and it was less than 2 hours, it is an Einsteinian paradox, it absorbs years of your life in its totally co-opted and oppressively dense script. I started watching this 2 hours ago at the age of 31 and I am now 47 years old.
There is not an original thought in the whole thing, it's almost as if it has been so widely mistaken for inventive because it takes so much from so many sources that you lose track halfway and in the absolute deluge of convoluted theft made nonsense by the writer you are too dizzied to think it is anything else but genius. It is not.
Dear screenwriter: we love hacks, but only when they realize they are what they are and write what they are capable of. Don't try to be Mamet when you would do us all a favor being the anonymous well paid idiot who cranks out the same movie over and over again.
Awful. Awful. Awful.