Film Review – Legend

In 1990, the story of Reggie and Ronnie Kray, the twin gangsters of 1960s London, was explored in “The Krays,” which starred Gary and Martin Kemp, from the band Spandau Ballet. Acting efforts are substantially accelerated in “Legend,” which does away with twinning to focus on star Tom Hardy, who portrays both Reggie and Ronnie in a bruisingly seductive manner only he can pull off. Casting works wonderfully, but “Legend” is an extremely difficult movie. Imagining the Krays as a bottomless pool of interesting behaviors and impulses, the feature doesn’t make much sense of their criminal reign, cherry picking the highlights of their madness without establish context, making the picture feel frustratingly incomplete. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com