Legend (18) - Ely Cinema
Director: Brian Helgeland. Starring: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Chazz Palminteri. 131 mins.
Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, Mystic River) directs this fascinating take on twin brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray, who ruled London’s gangland in the late 1950s and ’60s. Intriguingly, Tom Hardy plays both of them. Reggie attempts to curb his brother’s psychopathic tendencies as the pair stay out of reach of the long arm of the law. Their gripping story unfolds in a finely nuanced period crime drama with a hefty side order of carnage.