A Cray, Kray Brotherhood.

Rating: 6/10 (23 April 2017)

My first question: "Can Reggie actually even drive"? He never ended up teaching Frances how to drive, and I believe it's because he himself, can't... All he knows, all he and his brother know, is gangsterism.
Tom Hardy was excellent, and I expected no less from him. Emily Browning also displayed some quality in her performance, and was quite lovely to watch.
Legend starts off very promisingly, but then with every passing minute, it deflated. In the beginning you don't really feel the puncture, however towards the end, all you want to do is pull over to the side because the ride has lost some momentum.
The way the story was told and/or directed, lacked some fluidity of sorts. I mean, Reggie went to jail twice, the Richardson's rivalry flatlined, then got Ron into jail/mental hospital, Paul Bettany's character was there, then not... The timeline was, not well handled at all and, the whole coalition with the mafia, seemed to just evaporate. All of that and more happened in this movie, but it didn't really come together satisfactorily.
The Kray brothers may have been the bosses of London, but sadly, somehow, this movie didn't quite portray a story I feel, needed telling. Perhaps their story is actually legendary, however, Legend failed to convince me.
Again, Tom Hardy was superb, but, he wasn't enough to save this movie, as it were... Because it wasn't a bad movie at all, but, it wasn't nearly as enthralling as it could've been either. 6.4/10.
And my second question: "Why was Frances the one, narrating the film"? I find that very interesting, and not in the way Ronnie Kray found things interesting.