Too much use of the C word

Rating: 4/10 (18 July 2016)

I was really looking forward to seeing this movie. I liked the way it began, but soon it was quite apparent that the writer of this script was lacking in any real writing skill and imagination. I say this because the entire movie was filled with way too much use of the swear word starting with the letter C. That is one word I really do not like hearing in the first place and this movie just went crazy with using it. I do not know why so many writers think that a movie about tough and rough characters has to be filled with a lot of swearing. There is a way of getting the message across without the over use of swearing. Look at the old gangster movies from the 30s and 40s. You knew that they were terrible people and that they were gangsters and you did not have to sit and listen to a nearly endless stream of swearing. Perhaps today's writers need to go back to school and take some writing classes. They should also buy a dictionary.
The acting was good and Tom Hardy did a good job of portraying twins that are so opposite of one another that it is easy to forget that they are actually twins. Some of the story line was also good, and would have been greatly enhanced with a bit more development of some of the other characters (plus less swearing).
I was reading the different trivia information that IMDb members posted and noticed that there is another movie about the Krays called The Krays. I have put that on my watch list and I am hoping to be able to see it. I am also hoping that it has more information about the Kray brothers and their "empire" using a better script that contains a great deal less swearing.