Layer Cake
2004
***
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, George Harris, Sienna Miller
Matthew Vaughn produced Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. His directorial debut doesn't veer too far from the world of Guy Ritchie's vacuous cockney gangster movies, but his style and his characters are less grating. The story, from J.J. Connolly's novel, is twisty, entertaining and instantly forgettable. Daniel Craig plays a cautious midlevel drug dealer who conducts his business according to a strict set of rules. However, once he's falsely linked to a stolen shipment of drugs, his fate is no longer in his own hands.
