Crime doesn't pay but it sure as hell can look cool. Tom Hardy and Tom Hardy, with the aid of ol' movie magic, play twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray, two real life London gangsters from the 1960s whose exploits have been so glamorized in their native country you could accurately call the movie about their lives Legend. (Indeed, this is the second movie about the brothers, following 1990's The Krays.) Any film with Tom Hardy is automatically of note, so a double-whammy like this is certainly something worth catching. Unfortunately, beyond the performances and exquisite period décor, there's not much in Brian Helgeland's lengthy motion picture that you haven't seen numerous times before.
Reggie is the slick one. Dashing, debonair, silver-tongued and, despite having the strange profession of beating people up for money, he is a halfway decent guy. He likes running nightclubs, and maybe if he didn't come from the desolate East End of London he wouldn't have taken the illegal route to get there. (What the movie leaves out is that the Krays were both Jewish and Romani, thus double-outsiders.) Ronnie, bespectacled and a little beefier, is more brawn than brain. Medicated for paranoid schizophrenia, he's always a hair-trigger from violent eruption or meltdown. Plus, he's an out homosexual in an environment that is altogether unaccepting of such people, unless, that is, you're the boss. Either role would be a dream for an actor; Hardy gets both and is terrific in each direction. It's not exactly a mark of a quality film, but you
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