Advantages: .......................... Disadvantages: Its all so terribly 1940's, but not in a good way
The Baker is very simple British comedy about a hired killer who decides to take a softer touch with one of his hired hits. Offering the man an option to simply disappear rather than be executed, the news about Milo's (Damien Lewis) lenience gets back to his employer and Milo finds himself a target for killing. In order to escape his fate Milo puts New York behind him and heads to the Welsh countryside and a small rural town. After a suspicious arrival ... ...baker. It's not long before the locals led by Eggs (Dyfan Dwyfor) start to doubt his baking experience, and realise that he is (or rather was) a hired killer, in a small town where little arguments get out of control everyone knows somebody they want dead.
The Baker starts very promising but very quickly loses its sheen, I found not 30 minutes in that the movie felt an awful lot like many British comedies of probably more than 40 years prior. I'd ...
sghawken 17.04.2008
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Milo is a professional hit man living on the edge. When he fails to fulfil a contract for ... more
the first time in his career he is forced to escape the city to avoid the wrath of his employers. He hides out in a remote rural village where the locals mistake...
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