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Legend — Love, fight, live, rule like a legend.
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Legend

2015 7 62.0K R views saved
Legend

Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

Countries: GB
Languages: English
Content Rating: R
Runtime: 2hrs 12min
Status: Released
Release date: 2015-09-09
Release format: Streaming — Feb 01, 2016
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madisonbrown
@madisonbrown 9 years ago

OMFG THIS MOVIE IS AMAZING. Sorry but I adored this film! Be aware: It is a biopic, do not go into this expecting something different. So yes, it has pacing issues and is a little long but that can't really be helped. But those issues are nothing compared to how slamming this movie is.

I've seen it twice already, it's been out in Australia for 2 weeks. In saying that I recommend a second viewing lets you pick up lots of little elements you may have missed the first time, subtle foreshadowing and commentary.

Now onto the important stuff! Tom Hardy is genius, actually genius. He said in an interview recently that he preferred playing Ronnie (the twin with glasses) and I am so happy he did because Ronnie was played spectacularly. He was by far the most interesting and complex character . Reggie was brilliant too however Ron's depth of character and surprising humor was flat out amazing. Emily Browning surprised me, I didn't hate her as much as I thought I would. In saying that I didn't really enjoy her character either. I believe her acting was a little to subtle as her character has a little flat. This is probably just me but Taron Egerton was great, I love the kid and he is going onto to do amazing work but in this film Mad Teddy was to die for. Hilarious and well-rounded. On the topic of Teddy he story line with Ronnie was very well handled. I was scared they would brush over it as is quite common and just stick to alluding. Whilst nothing was show I felt it received the same treatment as other story lines. That's my slightly confusing way of avoiding spoilers.

Had a great soundtrack and a beautiful screenplay. Seriously, just the construction of sentences and dialogue was perfection. As always for my favorite films I'll leave you a quote of this film, hopefully to entice you to watch it.

"It took a lot of love for me to hate him the way I do"

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madisonbrown
@madisonbrown 9 years ago

OMFG THIS MOVIE IS AMAZING. Sorry but I adored this film! Be aware: It is a biopic, do not go into this expecting something different. So yes, it has pacing issues and is a little long but that can't really be helped. But those issues are nothing compared to how slamming this movie is.

I've seen it twice already, it's been out in Australia for 2 weeks. In saying that I recommend a second viewing lets you pick up lots of little elements you may have missed the first time, subtle foreshadowing and commentary.

Now onto the important stuff! Tom Hardy is genius, actually genius. He said in an interview recently that he preferred playing Ronnie (the twin with glasses) and I am so happy he did because Ronnie was played spectacularly. He was by far the most interesting and complex character . Reggie was brilliant too however Ron's depth of character and surprising humor was flat out amazing. Emily Browning surprised me, I didn't hate her as much as I thought I would. In saying that I didn't really enjoy her character either. I believe her acting was a little to subtle as her character has a little flat. This is probably just me but Taron Egerton was great, I love the kid and he is going onto to do amazing work but in this film Mad Teddy was to die for. Hilarious and well-rounded. On the topic of Teddy he story line with Ronnie was very well handled. I was scared they would brush over it as is quite common and just stick to alluding. Whilst nothing was show I felt it received the same treatment as other story lines. That's my slightly confusing way of avoiding spoilers.

Had a great soundtrack and a beautiful screenplay. Seriously, just the construction of sentences and dialogue was perfection. As always for my favorite films I'll leave you a quote of this film, hopefully to entice you to watch it.

"It took a lot of love for me to hate him the way I do"

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Foxxxy33
@foxxxy33 8 years ago

Sum it up with one word "AWESOME"

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midna
@midna 2 years ago

one of my all time favorite movies, Tom Hardy is sooo good in this movie, both as Ron and Reggie, loved it a lot the first time i watched it years ago, and even more now on a second re-watch

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Sean2703
@swork2703 8 years ago

**Need more like this** 5* movie and one man show made it that better

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Spanning60+Years Of Entertainment
@cinematicthrowbacks 5 years ago

Hardy was a master at playing two characters. I'm not really a fan of gangster movies, but I really enjoyed this one. I do recommend this movie to any Tom Hardy fan.

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@horror-future-7 3 years ago

Very good movie but amazing perfomances for Tom Hardy 7.6/10

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Di
@smart-d 7 years ago

it was weird to see Tom Hardylike that but he was amazing.

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Ro
@whynotcallmero 8 months ago

Tom Hardy had 35 shooting days in which he played both brothers on the same day. He would film the scenes with the brother who had the most dialogue first, then go back into hair and make-up to be transformed into the other brother.

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TheTrophyMunchers
@thetrophymunchers 8 years ago

Would have loved to have given this a better rating, unfortunately I found the story itself to be pretty basic and not a lot really happened when I look back on it. Luckily Tom Hardy does such an incredible job here that it makes it a watchable film, I think without him it really would have fallen flat. Can't deny that Emily Browning did a decent job too. - 7/10

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