David Thewlis Filmography Project

Rating: 6/10 (27 September 2019)

#21 Legend
Leslie Payne = The Accompanying Character
Pros: An entertaining and easy to watch the film without complications that despite not reinventing or doing anything new in the British Crime/Mob genre is made for you to keep watching, here David gives life to Leslie a bully related to organized crime in the 1960s. Tom Hardy's double character is perhaps the most interesting surprise in the whole story, I thought that seeing him in a double role would be boring but in the end, it wasn't! Once again David becomes a character that only serves to accompany or support the protagonist of the story that in this case is Hardy; it is a solid film after all and nothing more, if you like Gangster No. 1 this film will not disappoint you, but in turn, are not good if we compare them.
Cons: It's unfortunate that in 2015 a director or scriptwriter can't make a more original film or story and use ideas or clichés so common in many others because the film has so many of them. The last part is boring and poorly done and does not give you interest or follow up on what happens at the end. Seeing Chazzz Palminteri and David in the same scene reminds me how much they are aging now.