Full of twists and turns and an interesting plot. The only problem for me is I only understood like 2 people- O'Brien from Star Trek and Broots from Carnivale. I don't know- I wish these guys would learn the language already.

That's in my queue. L>ooking forward to it.

I usually have no problem understanding Brit/Irish/Scot acccents, but even cranked relatively high on volume, I found this movie incomprehensible. I had hoped for a lot more out of Layer Cake, but ended up with my finger on the fast forward button for most of the movie.

I watched this last weekend. Overall I enjoyed it. I haven't a clue why Sienna Miller was given top billing, she was in it for maybe 5 minutes tops. I didn't have too many problems with the dialects. The stuff I didn't catch didn't seem to matter, but I understood most of it. It was interesting to watch the alternate endings. I understand why they ended up with the one they did though.

"My name? If you knew that, you'd be as clever as me."

I usually have no problem understanding Brit/Irish/Scot acccents, but even cranked relatively high on volume, I found this movie incomprehensible. I had hoped for a lot more out of Layer Cake, but ended up with my finger on the fast forward button for most of the movie.

...so your FF rating would be high (low) then?

I usually have no problem understanding Brit/Irish/Scot acccents, but even cranked relatively high on volume, I found this movie incomprehensible. I had hoped for a lot more out of Layer Cake, but ended up with my finger on the fast forward button for most of the movie.

I'll see if they have English subtitles (they often do for us deafies)

I'll see if they have English subtitles (they often do for us deafies)

I haven't seen this particular film, but I've often used the English subtitle function on British or Irish films with heavy Irish or Cockney accents. It's a very helpful function, even though Dave has laughed at me because I need it.

I haven't seen this particular film, but I've often used the English subtitle function on British or Irish films with heavy Irish or Cockney accents. It's a very helpful function, even though Dave has laughed at me because I need it.

I use it because I have bad hearing (years in a garage band that played at 11 and headphones played at 12) plus surround sound with a huge subwoofer. So I need the sound up for conversation, but then when people start shooting and things start exploding, my fillings loosen and I'm knocked out of my chair.

I use it because I have bad hearing (years in a garage band that played at 11 and headphones played at 12) plus surround sound with a huge subwoofer. So I need the sound up for conversation, but then when people start shooting and things start exploding, my fillings loosen and I'm knocked out of my chair.

And where is poor Mary during all this racket?

Subtitles might work. There's some good music, particularly the opening--The Cult (She Sells Sanctuary)--and closing tunes--the superb Lisa Gerrard-- but the problem with turning up the volume to hear what's going on is that suddenly the mumbling dialog is interrupted with clashing and banging of electronical pulses a la Kylie Minogue. Aside from the dialog, the plot at time was equally muted and rambling. The plot twists at the end provided some bright touches.