Tom Hardy nails it... but the movie itself is just another "Null 8/15" mass product

Rating: 7/10 (18 March 2016)

I have to ask... is it to hard to make a great Gangster movie? After Black Mass, this is the second movie in 2015 which has the same problems. Good lead character but a bad Story telling. I mean, they don't have to invent a new genre. There are enough examples how it's done right.
I have to say, that without Tom Hardy this movie would be bad. Tom Hardy played so well that at some point I forgot that the Klay brothers were played by one actor. Big respect for that performance.
I very disliked the way the story was told. It is more a love romance than a real Gangster story. Watching it, you never get deep in the business, or the fight to the top of London. I think it would be better to let the neglecting of his wife play in the background of the story, so that the suicide hits ever harder in the end and pulls the character and the viewer out of the plot. Have some creativity. To tell the story from the view of the wife is not the best idea... that's what I think.
Without Tom Hardy the movie has not much to give. The story is lame, the camera work is good but has nothing special and the overall look is just OK.
In the end the movie is not what the trailer shows us. I wanted to see more straight gangster business. But the trailer had most of the good scenes in it. So what is the movie about!?!? It is a Love Story after all.
BUT... Tom Hardy is so fu**ing awesome that maybe I will watch it again. Tom Hardy is one of the best!! Hope he chooses better movies in
future.