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Tom Hardy is dazzling — but the film isn’t: Legend reviewed

The tone is all over the place, the violence repetitive, and you’ll laugh when you’re not supposed to

12 September 2015

9:00 AM

12 September 2015

9:00 AM

Legend

18, Nationwide

Legend is a biopic of the Kray twins starring Tom Hardy as Reggie and Tom Hardy as Ronnie, so it’s buy one get one free, and this offer will sell the film. It sold it to me, who would otherwise have little interest in the Krays, and was never moved to correspond with either (see Harry Mount’s Arts Feature; I did once write to David Cassidy, but did not receive a reply).

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