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Layer Cake

A slick gangster wants to make a few more big bucks and then get out of the game, but his boss has other ideas. Sound familiar? It’s all too familiar in this British import, despite a high-strung lead performance from Daniel Craig. Director Matthew Vaughn furiously tries to develop his own style here, but it doesn’t amount to much more than flashy bursts of violence and lengthy parallel sequences that do little but convolute the plot.

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