That’s why everyone talks about how “lahvelee” ‘Reggie’ is. It’s about Tom and his very ‘hot’, very 21st Century, very narcissistic on-screen sexuality, split into two halves: mad, ugly, gay ‘Reggie’ and straight, pretty, sympathetic ‘Ronnie’ – who fight it out for dominance in this psycho costume drama. And you do get some of that when ‘Ron’ is on camera: Hardy’s ‘fat poof’ is often frighteningly funny.īut I put the names ‘Reggie’ and ‘Ronnie’ in quotes because at a visual level Legend isn’t about the gangster twins, or London in the 1960s. What everyone – or was it just me? – wanted from Legend was a gayer version of Hardy’s best-ever performance as Britain’s longest-serving solitary-confinement muscular psychopath, in Bronson (2008) – which come to think of it was pretty gay anyway. They just want him to get busy with a ball-hammer. (And maybe she didn’t either: her family disputes the film’s victimy portrayal of her ).Ĭertainly the audience doesn’t. But no one, apart from Frances, wants him to be normal. The narrative focus of the film is essentially on what it portrays as her doomed attempt to ‘save’ Reggie, domesticate him and make him ‘normal’ – and how this eventually kills her. So it has a from-beyond-the-grave voice-over ostensibly provided by Reggie’s first wife, Frances Shea (Emily Browning), who committed suicide in 1967, two years after their marriage. Legend makes the mistake of thinking that we’re more interested in ‘Reggie’ than ‘Ronnie’ – because he wasn’t the mad, ‘gay’ one.
How could it not? After all, it stars not one, but two Tom Hardys – he plays, as everyone must know now since it’s the whole conceit of the movie, both twins.ĭespite this, it does manage to get a little boring sometimes.
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And the latest re-telling of the story of Ronald and Reginald Kray, the sharp-suited, impeccably-groomed, glamorous gangster twins who ruled 1960s London’s underworld, is a mostly enjoyable movie which often gladdens the eye (even if it makes you squint a bit during the violent scenes). So says pretty much everyone in Legend about Tom Hardy’s looks.