Emily Browning. Brian Helgeland
Legend is Not That “Legend”-ary
Cinema & TV
November 8, 2015
Legend is Not That “Legend”-ary
The promise of not one but 2 Tom Hardys in “Legend” is hard to ignore. Tom Hardy is on point playing Reggie and Ronnie Kray, a pair of gangster brothers. Set in the East End of London during the 1960’s, the story revolves around the short rise and fall of the Kray twins. The admittedly familiar recount of the ‘gangsters rising to fame’ with London’s most notorious gangsters is shown in film’s stereotypically romanticised view of organised crime in “Legend”. The characters seem present on screen only as caricature. Playing as Reggie, Hardy takes on a charming façade as a gang…