Actors: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth
Cranham, George Harris, Jamie Foreman, Sienna Miller, Michael Gambon, Tom Hardy
Rating: 9 out of 10, I’ve loved each
of Matthew Vaugh’s directed films but had never seen this, his earliest. It’s
an elegant British gangster movie with the usual almost incomprehensible cockney
accents. Tom Hardy and Sienna Miller in minor parts before their careers took
off are also interesting. It was similar to Lock, Stock, and Etc. with a lot
more class and better photography. I got through the entire movie before
realizing Craig’s character, whom the entire movie is about, is never actually named.
Craig’s unnamed drug dealing gangster plays against type as kind of a softee
caught up in the machinations of the more typical criminal types. That along
with Vaughn’s usual pace and subtle special effects made this a very nice
experience. It also cemented Vaughn’s status as my favorite current director.
MVP: Craig plays against rep as a
fairly soft gangster XXX
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