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Layer cake screenit7/23/2023 ![]() ![]() I think the main reason that this all works really well together though is because of the lead character, which I’ll get into in a bit.Īs good as a bunch of all this is, Layer Cake wouldn’t have been as great without Daniel Craig, who honestly makes this movie. It’s actually pretty riveting over the hour and 45 minutes runtime. It for sure has some brief dark comedy at points however. Vaughn’s other R rated movies generally has a lot of dark comedy to it, Layer Cake on the other hand is more serious, more like a crime thriller and doesn’t have as much comedy. One could compare this to Guy Ritchie’s crime movies (especially seeing as how Vaughn was involved with Ritchie’s early movies), although there are some similarities, there are plenty of distinct differences between them, especially when it comes to the tone. It’s a pretty standard British crime thriller, albeit a very good one with some twists and turns. Connelly, adapting his book of the same name for the big screen. It’s even better than what I remembered it being from my first viewing. Although I saw it already years ago, I wanted to check it out again, since I was already rewatching some of Matthew Vaughn’s movies recently. It was very well received and put him on the map as a director to watch, with him very nearly directing the third X-Men movie afterwards. Layer Cake was Matthew Vaughn’s first movie, before then he produced some of Guy Ritchie’s movies.
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