Your right I am visiting a whole different cinema circuit to you.
This is actually one of the most crap British films I have ever seen.
Plot what f****** plot ?. You must be joking or easily impressed if
you think a few stock footage shots of London Docklands equals
contemporary scenery. As for mentioning this in the same breath as a
classic like GET CARTER, give me a break.

Oh and thanks for giving me permission to rent LOCK STOCK on video.

Mike
filmfan99uk



--- In filmtalkuk@..., Robert Holz <mensch_uk@y...>
wrote:
> The film Layercake for me was a return to the values
> of good old British 1960s crime fiction - the hero
> doesn't get away with his wickedness (Get Carter).
> This isn't Lock stock and Two smoking Barrels and if
> you went wanting to see that film why on earth didn't
> you just get a video of it and watch that instead?
>
> The plot does have holes in it but if you can pull out
> a film that doesn't in fact have gapping holes in the
> plot then you are visiting a totally different cinema
> circuit to me.
>
> The suspension of disbelief is perhaps a little more
> difficult because of the familiarity of the
> contemporary scenary and the excellent construction of
> the majority of the plot.
> By the way what are these terrible holes that you have
> so perceptively detected?
> Performances are superb. Although many of the
> characters do remind me of gangster No.1. The scene
> where Daniel Craig assassinates his former boss is
> beautifully performed right down to the loss of will
> before he takes the step of firing the gun. He almost
> has to catch is own conscience unawares in order to go
> through with the action.
>
> This is a film that in twenty years from now will be
> held up as one of the great gangster fliks of the
> resurging British film industry and not just a pale
> imitation of Lock Stock.
> robert
>
>
> --- mdoust4mike <mdoust4mike@y...> wrote:
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> 'Daniel Craig' is the straight and narrow drugs
> middleman (oxymoron),
> who finds himself caught up in a treble cross between
> his front,
> Serbian gangsters, and a dodgy firm claiming they are
> representing
> him. Cue lots of shootings, lots of shots of
> Docklands, assorted
> geezers giving it large, and various boxes of pills
> whom you are
> never quite sure who has hold of. Unfortunately this
> is one Brit
> gangster flick that is either far too complicated, or
> instead just
> has a stack of holes in the plot. Either way it's all
> about flash,
> pointless violence, pointless humour, and a bunch of
> characters you
> couldn't give a flying one for; LOCK STOCK AND TWO
> SMOKING BARRELS it
> aint.
>
> 'Colm Meaney' is the one actor that adds a bit of
> class to the
> proceedings, but on his own he can't really carry this
> one. Oh yes
> and if you are going hoping to see a lot more of that
> blonde bit from
> the trailer (which of course I wasn't, but I know
> there are some
> people who would go specifically for that reason,
> which I repeat is
> not me) prepare to be disappointed.
>
> Mike
> filmfan99uk
>
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