![]() So what do they have a problem with? Both Krays were gayĪ former associate of the Krays, Freddie Foreman, told The Sun that while watching Hardy on screen was "uncanny" and like "seeing the twins reincarnated", the film gets the relationship between Reggie and his wife, Frances Shea, totally wrong. Others have criticised the film, not for its artistic qualities, but for its poetic licence. She calls it a "big, brash ode" to brass-necked chancers that is "too long and too muddled to stand among the greatest British gangland films". The film itself is less impressive, says Helen O'Hara in the Daily Telegraph. Playing both Krays, says Lodge, is "a dazzling feat of thespian self-splicing" that elevates this "otherwise straightforward terrain". In Variety, Guy Lodge writes that "there are two good reasons to make what might otherwise seem an inessential new biopic" of the Krays and both of them "take the formidable form of Tom Hardy". Reviews of the film have been largely positive, at least about Hardy's performance. ![]() Crime reporters, family and former associates of the Krays have questioned the accuracy of the film's depiction of the brutal brothers. ![]() The new biopic Legend, starring Tom Hardy as the twin Cockney crime lords Ronnie and Reggie Kray, is due to open in UK cinemas next week, and it's already ruffling some feathers. ![]()
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