Adam_S
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Layer Cake - :star::star::star::star:
06/04/2005
35mm
I wanted to see Mad Hot Ballroom or Rock School but was outvoted by an obnoxious loud mouth friend of a friend who apparently hates children (explains why he's a camp counselor this summer...). But that's okay cause this is a damn good five act flick of faustian crime drama. There are some really clever transitions and the filmmaker does a nice job of making editing a function of cinematography. The film is delightfully entertaining and complex tale of things going wrong for the clever buisness-like middle-man main character. Daniel craig does an outstanding job in this role and the rest of the faces in the film are perfectly cast, lending a marvelous presence to the film with their unique faces that prevent you from being confused by the large and complex cast.
If there's a quibble with the film, it's that sometimes the strobe intercutting of simultaneous events is a hair overdone. it works, but it's used just a bit much. The script is outstanding and the storytelling very assured, it's a damn shame this man isn't directing XMen 3 but with the massive piles of supercilious script development comments he probably had dumped on him, I don't blame him.
06/04/2005
35mm
I wanted to see Mad Hot Ballroom or Rock School but was outvoted by an obnoxious loud mouth friend of a friend who apparently hates children (explains why he's a camp counselor this summer...). But that's okay cause this is a damn good five act flick of faustian crime drama. There are some really clever transitions and the filmmaker does a nice job of making editing a function of cinematography. The film is delightfully entertaining and complex tale of things going wrong for the clever buisness-like middle-man main character. Daniel craig does an outstanding job in this role and the rest of the faces in the film are perfectly cast, lending a marvelous presence to the film with their unique faces that prevent you from being confused by the large and complex cast.
If there's a quibble with the film, it's that sometimes the strobe intercutting of simultaneous events is a hair overdone. it works, but it's used just a bit much. The script is outstanding and the storytelling very assured, it's a damn shame this man isn't directing XMen 3 but with the massive piles of supercilious script development comments he probably had dumped on him, I don't blame him.