I've really wanted to see Casino Royale since it opened. I didn't get a chance to see it before I left, and the only things I saw over break were Borat and The Departed, both excellent movies, but both movies I had already seen. Enter the next best thing: Layer Cake.
Layer Cake is a British gangster film in the style of Guy Ritchie, which is to say it's Quentin Tarantino through a British lens, which is to say it was highly influenced by a varying number of random sources, because Tarantino is the poster child for ADD and we love him for it. Anyway, Daniel Craig plays an unnamed coke dealer who has had enough and is ready to retire, but his boss just wants him to do two more jobs first. And of course, it gets complicated. And then some other stuff happens, and Daniel Craig takes off his shirt. And I think some more stuff happened, but I was too distracted by the blinding sex appeal of Daniel Craig.
Kidding.
Well, I'm not kidding about the blinding sex appeal of Daniel Craig. But, regardless, Layer Cake is entertaining, intriguing, and stylish. After 3ish viewings, I'm still not entirely sure on the story and I don't mind. My lack of total comprehension comes from the fact that I kept catching the movie after 12 AM, when my attention span was less than at its peak. But convoluted or not, the movie was just too damn cool. I really wish the director, Matthew Vaughn, had ended up directing x3 - I'm sure it would have been more interesting than what Brett Ratner ended up doing. But definitely check out Layer Cake, if not for the sexiness that is Daniel Craig, then for the bad-ass cool-ness of the film itself.
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