Layer Cake sweet

Matthew Vaughn the director of Layer Cake previously produced Guy Ritchie’s films. Now Vaughn is being courted by the major studios (He has already become attached and detached from X-MEN 3.) and rightly so, his directorial finesse shines in the stratum of Layer Cake. Whether an odd angle to establish a scene or a plot with so many turns that Layer Cake attempts to out-confuse the myriad storytelling of Big Sleep, Vaughn keeps the attention on the characters and their race to unload a stolen shipment that is caught between more than one party. The gangs range from Amsterdam based émigrés from the latest war torn country to English drug dealers posing as gentlemen to undercover informants to legit detectives on the take. Throw in a missing daughter and the best use of rock songs on a soundtrack since a Tarantino film and each bite of this cake is delicious.
There’s a trend in English gangster films where a couple of films released in a short span become cult hits years later. Take Get Carter and The Italian Job (Michael Caine) from the late 60s/early 70s or Mona Lisa and The Long Good Friday (Bob Hoskins) from the 80s. Currently we have a modern gangster, half-genteel, half-snarling, exemplified by Clive Owen (Wake Me When I’m Dead) or Daniel Craig in Layer Cake. Craig is rumored to be the next James Bond and Bond’s new owner Sony is prepping Casino Royale. If this was a perfect world Sony would actually make a literal version of that first Bond novel.