Layer Cake (2004, Matthew Vaughn) is an intelligent crime thriller with a terrific Daniel Craig

Finally got around watching Matthew Vaughn's "Layer Cake" (which is now my favorite movie of his) and this genuinely felt like a Martin Scorsese rise and fall crime epic, just as a British pendant.The best part of the movie for me is definitely Daniel Craig, this performance must have surely given him the role of James Bond, even if he basically is on the other side of morality here. But I recognized that some shots felt really close to Casino Royale, like the paranoia or shower scene, which came out roughly 2 years later. Starting with that typical gangster narration the movie sells Craig as a different kind of criminal, calculative, discreet and dry, yet not emotionally unavailable.The movie also has some very intelligent moments, the clean script probably leads more or less back to it being a book adaptation, but it easily manages the 2-3 storylines and even perfectly intertwines them. It also has some really nice humor to it, not too much, but it's cleverly placed when the movie needs it.What do you think about Layer Cake? via /r/movies http://bit.ly/2MGZ55L