Legend

Legend just cements the view, if it wasn't blatantly obvious already, that Tom Hardy should always be the leading man in films and not just relegated to a scene-stealing side character.

Surely Mr Hardy should be the first choice to replace Daniel Craig as Bond?! This is an Oscar-worthy performance of force and personality playing two characters in the same film.

Portraying the Kray twins perfectly as charming and personable but dangerous and not-a-little mad. This is a great telling of the story, if a little one-note, biopics such as this always lack the thrilling twists and turns of an original piece and, in a gangster film, it does suffer slightly because of this.

Telling the story from the perspective of Reggie's wife Francis is fascinating at first but we quickly descend to the point where we, like Francis, are kept slightly in the dark about the Krays behind-the-scenes dealings and more light shone on this wouldn't go amiss.

Style wins out though and all the performances are terrific, the action violent and the laughs keep on coming as well.

See it for Hardy, Tom Hardy.

4 stars ****