Layer Cake

These days, it seems that no one does these kind of gangster/action/crime-drama's like the Asians. The British will make an occasional strong entry into the genre, but this isn't one of them. It's got that cross between Snatch and Sexy Beast, though I wasn't a huge fan of those films either. It's about "businessmen" and of course their business is drugs. Apparently somebody liked it because on the strength of this film, director Matthew Vaughan (his debut), has been offered the reigns to X-Men 3. He shows some promise and has flair, but so does Guy Ritchie. Fortunately, it has the lovely Sienna Miller, and the always watchable Michael Gambon as the guy at the top of the ladder. Then there's Daniel Craig who has a kind of cool to him, but most of that is probably because he bears an unusual resemblance to Steve McQueen which can't hurt.