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I like a film where there are no good guys.

No cops, no social engineers, no do gooders.

Just bad guys. Menacing bastards who do each other up neatly and suffer no guilt or remorse.

I think that is why

Layer Cake (2004)

is so satisfying.

Daniel Craig well before his Bond years and such British film luminaries as Michael Gambon all get to be good being bad.

The subject here is drugs and the drug trade.

It is a bit arcane but they spell it out for us without implying that we are dunces.

It also has that neat edge where rooting for the bad guys is allowed. Of course we hiss and boo the even badder guys.

It is an enjoyable romp through British crime. Tom Hardy is in this as a near articulate thug and we know his future. Some others as well.

A 4 out of Netflix5. I would not mind seeing it again at all.

Sorry about the vitamin pill ad. There were no exceptions.

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