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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
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Director:
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Matthew Vaughn
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Actors:
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Tamer Hassan,
Francis Magee,
Dimitri Andreas,
Brinley Green,
Garry Tubbs,
Nathalie Lunghi,
Daniel Craig,
Tom Hardy,
Jamie Foreman,
Sally Hawkins,
Burn Gorman,
George Harris,
Colm Meaney,
Marcel Iures,
Kenneth Cranham
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Duration:
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101 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)154.5
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Plot Summary:
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As way down controlled and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER Block follows the unequivocal, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he manoeuvres through what he intends to be his pattern business deal in modern-broad daylight London. His business...Drugs. On the cusp of turning 30, XXXX has amassed a personal fortune, deftly avoiding the frenzy and ugliness so many others in his selling withdraw upon to by following a conscientious disparaging code defined close to discretion and clean detachment from the products he sells. Impartial as XXXX is poised to cash in and get out, Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cr... anham), the best layer of this particular underworld bun, hands down two tasks: find Eddie Shrine's (Michael Gambon) numb-addicted daughter, and unload a heap up of ecstasy stolen in Amsterdam on the sloppy, piercing Duke (Jamie Foreman), who is exactly the variety of wannabe gangster that XXXX has spent his employment avoiding. Moreover complicating matters is Tammy (Sienna Miller), a ribald babies blond who XXXX meets in a baton and can't get off his mind.
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adolescent nonsense
Are there really people who find this sort of contrived adventure/thriller entertaining? How sad.
A bunch of actors having a bit of cheap fun being cinematic gangsters, ho hum. Get a life, guys.
The beautiful blue eyes of Daniel Craig are wasted on this stagey rubbish.
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