Helgeland’s script is hit-and-miss, not on the Oscar-winning level of his L.A. Peter Medak’s 1990 film The Krays, starring Gary and Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet, had more narrative force. At one point, the brothers punch each other out. But his outbursts with an American Mafioso (Chazz Palminteri) drive Reggie bonkers. Of course, Ronnie loves his mum (Jane Wood).
The gay Kray is indisputably cray-cray, a monster given to sadistic violence and orgies involving Lord Boothby (John Sessions) and Teddy Smith (a terrific Taron Egerton). Legend finds Tom Hardy playing two lead roles: twin brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray. Legend has gotten some pretty good reviews.Total Film called it a 'career-best performance' for star Tom Hardy, Time Out gushed that it was 'surely his finest hour,' and so on. The websites critical consensus reads, 'As a gangster biopic, Legend is deeply flawed, but as a showcase for Tom Hardy in a dual role, no less it just about lives up to its title. Legend Review A portrait of East End gangsters the Kray twins (Hardy and Hardy) at their peak, through the eyes of Reggie Krays wife Frances (Browning).
Writer-director Brian Helgeland uses Frances to narrate the film, a device that fails to pay off, since even a voice-over can’t make sense of Ronnie. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 61 based on 164 reviews and an average rating of 5.9/10. Reggie, ever the smooth operator, was cool enough to temporarily hide his cruel streak from Frances (Emily Browning), the girl he woos like Romeo courting his Juliet on her balcony. Pentel Brush pen with background of Montana Marker, in an 8 x 8 inch Seawhite of Brighton Sketchbookwhich loves brush pen. Ronald and Reginald Kray were the gangster lords of London during the 1960s. Left: Actor Tom Hardy as Ron Kray in Legend. I seem to be having a bit of a Tom Hardy moment lately, the other week it was Mad Max: Fury Road and now it's Legend, I have to say that I'd been looking forward to seeing Legend ever since I first saw some of the teasers a while back and then after reading Tom Hardy's Biography, Rise of a Legend (which we also recently gave a copy away of in one of our competitions), so I was excited to get. The good news: Hardy manages to create two of the most distinct/memorable characters I’ve seen in 2015. It helps that he’s playing identical twins. Watching Tom Hardy playing twin British Gangsters (one straight, one gay) in 1960’s London is such a unique premise that Legend had me hooked from the start. In Legend, Hardy gets to do both, and all stops in between. Tom Hardy can act the hell out of any role, from subtle to blow-the-roof-off.
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