So that sounds pretty interesting, yeah? Indeed, more than a few moments of Legend are engaging, but the film doesn’t really know where it’s going and, at over two hours in length, becomes an absolute slog in its back half. Additionally, an ambitious London cop ( Christopher Eccleston) is determined to bring the Kray Brothers down once and for all. On their way to the top, Reggie falls in love with a woman named Frances Shea ( Emily Browning), adding a wife who yearns for Reggie to go legitimate to complicate matters further.
This dynamic, coupled with Reggie’s deep loyalty to his blood relative despite the trouble Ronnie may cause, results in a quick rise up the ranks in the East End.
Reggie opts to run their operations with a cool head, but Ronnie-who makes no effort to hide his homosexuality despite the culture of the time, which is one of the film’s few delights-is a bit of a loose cannon, prone to explosions and generally strange behavior, no doubt due to deep-rooted jealousy over his put-together brother. While Reggie and Ronnie are dual leaders of their criminal gang, Reggie-the “handsome” one-somewhat takes the captain role over Ronnie, who’s an odd fellow diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Written and directed by Brian Helgeland, Legend charts the rise and fall of Reggie and Ronald Kray, with Hardy filling both roles of the identical twins.
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There’s surely a good story to be found in the life of the Kray Brothers, a pair of gangsters who ruled East End London in the 1960s, and while Legend at times gets close to finding something fascinating to say (or do), unfortunately it meanders its way through most of its overlong 131 minute runtime, resulting in a bore of a movie that leans far too heavily on familiar cliches. It’s hard to make an uninteresting movie when you have Tom Hardy playing twin gangster brothers, and yet Legend is somehow up to the task.
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