Layer Cake

is a stylish, well written crime caper, but a Dick Flick nonetheless.  You know the type - lots of violence, guns, drugs,  beatings and double-dealings from a bevy of prime beef, with a token babe in black lingerie thrown in.

Daniel is known only by XXXX, since he runs a tight ship and doesn't want his real name revealed. He's in it purely for the money,  to make a sizable nest egg, then get out.  XXXX abhors violence, but things change. Sometimes circumstances demand it.