Unfortunately Amazon is saying this is in stock (as with many other products on the website) -- yet days later you receive a later apologizing for the delay. Be aware of this if you are buying for Xmas

Once you get past the at-times unintelligible Cockney - this was intended for Brit audiences, I guess - the film moves along at a decent clip, though the plot twists are hard to follow and the whole beginning is so slow as to be almost bad enough for the viewer to give up - as I did. I then re-inserted the disc a few days later, and found the pace to be picking up enough to watch it through to completion. The usual druggie gangster nonsense, with the requisite plot twists and double crosses, comes along then. The photography is the film's best point. Worth a watch.

With a plot that would take longer than the movie to explain, this is a gangster movie with everyone double or triple crossing everyone else. Just great fun but don't expect to see Sienna Miller in this movie for more than thirty seconds at a time. This is the kind of character that Steve McQueen used to play, cooler than cool and steady as the Rock of Gibralta.

Just watch the film and enjoy, but don't blink, you'll miss something important. (Americans may find it difficult to understand some of the language and the accents on some of the characters are very thick.)

Amazingly complex plot woven with threads of delicious action and well written dialogue.

Good beyond all rational expectations.

***1/2 2004. Based on J.J. Connolly's Layer Cake, this film was directed by the British director Matthew Vaughn. London. Daniel Craig is told by his boss to purchase the loot offered by the Duke and his gang. But this loot was robbed in the Netherlands from a local Serbian drug lord who's not happy at all. With David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises (Widescreen Edition) and John Mackenzie's The Long Good Friday - Criterion Collection, you'll have with LAYER CAKE a near complete overview of the London underground described in cinema. Recommended.