This is going to be a short post because I am tired and my allergies are kicking my ass.The unnamed hero of our story (Daniel Craig) is a middleman for drug dealer Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham). He wants to retire but Price has two last requirements: 1) he must barter with The Duke (Jamie Foreman), an odious gangsta wannabe, over the acquisition of an exorbitant amount of ecstasy pills worth upwards of a million pounds sterling and 2) he must locate the crackhead daughter of an extremely wealthy man, Eddie Temple (Micheal Gambon). This leads our hero into a veritable rabbit's warren of complications as the pills were stolen from Serbian war criminals and the daughter isn't so much being rescued as she is wanted as a hostage by Price.
This is probably the second or third time I've seen this film and I will tell you flat out, I did not get it the first time. Even this time I was struggling to see where all the threads were going, mostly I think because I kept waiting for it to be funny. I don't know what movie the guy on the poster saw but it wasn't the same one I did. Sure, it had some funny moments but overall this is a straight-up violent film for violence's sake. If you go in knowing that I think you'll have a better time with it. It's damn sure stylish. Jury's out on whether that's enough to make it good.
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