the steps. Cast Production Filming began in June 2003. Queen's Gate Mews in South Kensington, London, was used as the filming location for the home of Daniel Craig's main character. Soundtrack The soundtrack from Layer Cake comprises 14 tracks. "Hayling" – FC Kahuna "Opening" – Ilan Eshkeri and Steve McLaughlin "She Sells Sanctuary" – The Cult "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (Original Radio Edit) – Kylie Minogue "You Got the Love" (Original bootleg radio mix) – The Source feat. Candi Staton "Drive to the Boatyard" – Ilan Eshkeri "Junky Fight" – Lisa Gerrard "Making Plans for Nigel" – XTC "Ordinary World" – Duran Duran "Ruthless Gravity" – Craig Armstrong "Four to the Floor" (Soulsavers Mix) – Starsailor "Drive to the Warehouse" – Ilan Eshkeri and Lisa Gerrard "Aria" (Layer Cake Speech) – Lisa Gerrard with Michael Gambon "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" – Joe Cocker The Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter" also features in the film but does not appear on the soundtrack album. Release Box office Home media Layer Cake was released on DVD and VHS on 23 August 2005 and on Blu-ray in 2007. It was also re-released in 2014. Reception and legacy Layer Cake received positive reviews, with an 80% "Certified fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an average of 7.03/10 based on 141 reviews. The critical consensus states that it is "A stylized, electric British crime thriller". On Metacritic it has a weighted average score of 73% based on 30 reviews. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times remarked, "The movie was directed by Matthew Vaughn, who produced Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, and this one works better than those films because it doesn't try so hard to be clever and tries harder to be menacing". Of Craig's performance, he said, "Craig is fascinating here as a criminal who is very smart, and finds that it is not an advantage because while you might be able to figure out what another smart person is about to do, dumbos like the men he works for are likely to do anything". He gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle remarked on the "efficient, gripping story" and wrote that Craig's performance as an improvising, "intelligent amateur" contained the "cool-yet-humble vibe of Steve McQueen". Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave it a grade A, calling it a "Fast,