Legend

Today I want to talk about Legend, a movie that resolves around the life of the notorious Kray twins, Reggie and Ronnie, while also tackling the love life of both brothers. That's where Emily Browning comes in as Frances Shea, the woman behind the mobster who always seems to have some magical control on him and manages to cool him down... Until a certain point at least.

Reggie Kray was a former boxer and Ronnie was simply locked up in a psychiatric hospital due to suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. At the start of the movie Reggie uses his powers and threats to get Ronnie out of the hospital, but you could clearly see that Ronnie was not in a condition at all to stop being supervised by a medical institution. After Reggie bails him out they unite forces to start dominating and control a large part of London's criminal scene. Despite the fact that they were twins they were really different from each other tho, the goals that both wanted to achieve were the same in some way, but the means to fulfill those same goals, weren't.

Tom Hardy is the main star of this movie, and deservedly so, he pulled off a major stunt and it was something that I've never seen as well, he's actually the same actor for the 2 main characters in the movie.

When I knew this information before watching the film I instantly thought that it was not gonna work and that he wouldn't be able to pull off this magic stunt, but it worked, in a wonderful way. I guess that I was worried about the fact that Hardy would behave too similarly while portraying the 2 making it hard to differentiate one twin from another in terms of actions and personality wise, but he gave each twin a whole different energy.

The movie is really well structured and really captures the reality that most don't live and don't have a clue about, a reality filled with criminality, wars, jail and all sorts of stuff in the criminal world.

Favourite Quote: "They won't talk to a policeman but they'll kiss a gangster".

Rating(0-10): ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.