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Forget everyone else-which should be easy. Legend just wants you to gawp lovingly at the Krays, with their aw-shucks, C-bomb-laden East London patter and cuddly propensity for ultra-violence. She is the one on the end of mental and physical abuse, but itвЂ™s still her husband whoвЂ™s the ostensible hero. There should be sympathy for Frances, played with wide-eyed lifelessness by Browning, but the film doesnвЂ™t ask for your investment in her story (oddly, considering itвЂ™s told from her perspective). ItвЂ™s not just problematic that Helgeland cast a swoonsome, swaggering pretty boy as the pair: he makes the Krays the only interesting, well-rounded characters in the movie. Despite the many despicable deeds Helgeland shows the Krays committing, Legend-like Peter MedakвЂ™s The Krays before it-still canвЂ™t help but idolize them as self-made men and anti-authoritarian rebels. ItвЂ™s troubling: Legend has a perverse fascination with the Krays that cinema (and indeed the UK) canвЂ™t seem to shake. In fact, it would seem that almost all of HelgelandвЂ™s effort went into getting his two lead characters right, leaving little time to concentrate on much else. (The interplay between Hardy and Hardy is, FYI, realized through a seamless combination of effects and editing.) Reportedly Hardy only agreed to make the film on the condition that he could play both Krays, and the film in turn has a whiff of an actorвЂ™s vanity project about it: He surely canвЂ™t have seen much in the script beyond an opportunity to show off his ability to beat the tricky challenge. The scene in which the gangster siblings fight hell-for-leather in one of their own bars is LegendвЂ™s best, partly because Hardy is routinely impressive, and partly because in the presence of these two characters-just them-is where the film always makes the most effort.

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Of course, the period trappings are subtly effective, but theyвЂ™re lazily bolstered by a soundtrack made for every вЂ™60s movie ever, a soundtrack which also features-oh God-Welsh, one-time pop superstar Duffy, who shows up in the film as a popular lounge singer to give an idea of how out-of-touch the man behind this project is. HelgelandвЂ™s journeyman direction and his episodic script, which begins to grow tiresome around the third or fourth scene of Ronnie brutally losing his cool, seem primarily to blame for the slog this film can be.

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An ear for the idiosyncrasies of the East End dialect aside, HelgelandвЂ™s dialogue is largely flat and unmemorable-not to mention frustratingly broad whenever he tries for humor-while the film on the whole often feels like a series of anecdotes loosely strung together by ReggieвЂ™s wife-and the filmвЂ™s narrator-Frances (Emily Browning).

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Story-wise, itвЂ™s a TV movie-ish rundown of the KraysвЂ™ criminal heyday running clubs, schooling slags, battling rival gangs and scrapping amongst themselves over petty brotherly disputes. Past dissecting Hardy the public image, as a biography of two real-life subjects, Legend is less satisfying. In playing both brothers-the vulgar, psychologically unstable Ronnie, and the suave, handsome Reggie-Hardy gets to split himself open for the world to see, simultaneously indulging in the intense, volatile character work thatвЂ™s made him beloved of critics while also being the glamorous movie star leading man Hollywood has been trying to position him as for years. Charting a decade of London violence propagated by the dangerous symbiotic relationship between Kray twins Reggie (Hardy) and Ronnie (also Hardy), this Swinging вЂ™60s biopic is most interesting not as a period piece, but as an exploration of one actorвЂ™s Jekyll and Hyde persona.

Tom Hardy fans, rejoice: Brian HelgelandвЂ™s Legend stars the pouty-lipped actor-in not one, but two roles, acting with himself.