Legend's reviews
Media reviews
Empire
(...) Hardy is astonishing and magnetic in two truly towering performances.
Entertainment Weekly
The film?s saving grace is Hardy, who is as ferocious and watchable as ever, acting smooth and brooding as Reggie and unhinged as Ronnie.
New York Times
Tom Hardy and Tom Hardy are the reasons to see 'Legend', a gangster flick in which he does double duty as Ronnie and Reggie Kray, the British gangster twins who had a moment in the 1960s.
Variety
Hardy's astonishing, award-caliber twin turn as the notorious Kray brothers deepens and darkens Brian Helgeland's biopic.
Rolling Stone
Helgeland's script is hit-and-miss, not on the Oscar-winning level of his 'L.A. Confidential'. Still, Hardy is a show all by himself, an actor flying without a net and having a ball.
El Mundo
Hardy manages to give life to every personality without falling into the schematic. The problems come on the other hand. Brian Helgeland barely reaches to provide narrative rigor to a history stopped in a conflict that does not advance.
The Telegraph
In those roles, Tom Hardy is great at least 50% of the time (...) It?s too long and too muddled to stand among the greatest British gangland films like 'The Long Good Friday' (...)
Indiewire
There are still pleasures to be found: the recreation of the period and world is deeply immersive, and it?s worth the price of admission just to see Hardy?s Reggie performance, which is up among his best work. Still, the story could have perhaps used a more inspired hand at the helm,
The Hollywood Reporter
Written and directed by Brian Helgeland (...), this ungainly portrait strikes a lot of poses (...) But none of it disguises the fact that the film is also tonally incoherent, vacuous and structurally a bleedin' mess.
El País
Brian Helgeland, reputed writer (...) is the latest in added to a list of directors than with actual or fictitious stories of exciting possibilities (...) do not just give their characters entity, only a charismatic appearance.
Los Angeles Times
A tremendous effort by Hardy is let down by unfocused storytelling.
New York Post
Hardy and and Caroline Harris? period costumes are the most memorable thing about ?Legend,? which is basically Scorsese lite.