Layer Cake

I have wanted to see this film. Not sure if it is still showing at Cinema Art/Downtown West. Here is an excerpt of the review at www.knoxnews.com:


"Layer Cake" has the same ingredients as a host of other recent films about the British underworld, but it still manages to seem fresh.

It's not as frenetic as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" or "Snatch," which is telling, since Matthew Vaughn, making his directing debut here, produced those two. It's not as menacing as "Sexy Beast" or as antisocial as "Gangster No. 1."

What most of those films have that "Layer Cake" does not is attitude. Instead, like "Sexy Beast" - though not quite reaching the same heights - "Layer Cake" has atmosphere and insight.

I have seen "Sexy Beast" and menacing is an interesting way to describe the film.