Storyline
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.
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Cast
Nicholas Farrell, John Sessions, Chazz Palminteri, Paul Bettany, Tom Hardy, David Thewlis, Paul Anderson, Frankie Fitzgerald, Emily Browning, Sam Hoare, Kevin McNally, Christopher Eccleston, Nick Hendrix, Sam Spruell, Christopher Adamson, Adam Fogerty, Lorraine Stanley, Aneurin Barnard, Stephen Lord, Tim Woodward, Chris Mason, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Joshua Hill, Tara Fitzgerald, Duffy, Taron Egerton, John Carr, Colin Morgan, Millie Brady, Bob Cryer, Samantha Pearl, Martin McCreadie, Jane Wood, Mel Raido, Shane Attwooll, Major Johnson Finley, Lara Cazalet, Ashley Byam, John Sears, Robin Hooper
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Reviews
80
In what is surely his finest hour, Tom Hardy plays both brothers. Much more than a gimmick, it’s like watching one side of a mind wrestle with the other – literally, in one explosive, fun-to-unpick fight scene.
80
Empire
Helgeland’s savvy new take on this well-known story proves that crime can pay, while Hardy is astonishing and magnetic in two truly towering performances.
80
It’s flawed, yes – Frances is frustratingly underwritten, her psychological fault lines spoken of but never shown – but it’s also swaggeringly cinematic. And it has Tom Hardy vs Tom Hardy.
70
For all Hardy’s expressive detail and physical creativity, Helgeland’s chewy, incident-packed script offers little insight into what made either of these contrasting psychopaths tick, or finally explode.
60
It’s easy to buy Hardy’s dual performance, and it doesn’t get in the way of the film – although some actor-ly exuberance in the delivery of Ronnie can sound an off-note, with Hardy using some facial prosthetics around the jaw line which aren’t particularly subtle.
