Review of Legend (2015) by Timothy A — 10 Nov 2015

Good enough but far from exciting. The design sets a mood while avoiding the worst excesses of parody, though it's really no better than a Martina Cole mini-series. Hardy gives two decent performances taken on their own merits, but fails to work with himself as an ensemble, with the joins between different set ups being visible in more ways than one.

The script does its best, and putting Alicia Vikander's mob wife front and centre means a lot of sins are forgiven, but there's no getting around the fact that the existence of the Krays was a lot more interesting than their actual stories.