The nontraditional color scheme isn't what you'd expect from the period piece. Costume textures are consistently apparent. Facial pores and individual strands of hair stand out abundantly. The picture is absolutely crisp and clear. Shot digitally, the near-perfect final product is stylistically unfitting for the era in which it's set. 'Legend' has been given a solid 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 encode that's almost too sharp for its own good. Prior to getting to the disc's main menu, there's a flood of abbreviated film trailers, including ' Spotlight,' 'Jarhead 3: The Siege,' ' Trumbo,' 'London Has Fallen,' 'Race,' ' Steve Jobs,' ' Sisters' and 'By the Sea.' Universal has placed 'Legend' on a BD-50 disc and slapped it in a single-disc Elite keepcase with an Ultraviolet/iTunes digital copy code. To think of how great 'Legend' could have been if the quality of the screenplay matched those of the performances.
#LEGEND TOM HARDY ON DVD MOVIE#
If there was ever a movie to see for performances alone, this would be it. Through it all, Browning crushes expectations via her performance. You see her in both her strongest and weakest forms. You see her young naivete, her head-over-heel blinded infatuation, her true love, and her heartbreak. Her character is the only one that goes through a fully visible on-screen arch. But as great as he is, Emily Browning is the actor who truly surprised me here. There aren't many actors that could have pulled this off in the way that Hardy did. You'll never look at Reggie and Ronnie as being brought to life by the same actor. He only solidifies his capabilities here. There are many moments where I caught myself asking my wife, "While piecing this together in the editing bay, how could anyone think that this scene was working well?" When a movie's quality is so faulty that it pulls you away and distracts you from the principal story, then it's got a major issue.ĭespite its massive flaw, there are still great aspects of 'Legend.' Tom Hardy has already proven himself on many occasions. Stylistically, the scenes that combine both worlds don't work. It ultimately makes the film rather unlikable. It's easily understandable why 'Legend' was formatted with the love-hate structure that it carries because that's how the real story unfolds – but as proven by the final product, that concept works better on paper than it does on screen. When Reggie's past catches up with him and temporarily sends him to jail, Ronnie's unintentional undermining begins.
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His impatience, ignorance and psychosis cause him to undermine everything.
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Ronnie, however, is incapable of connecting with Reggie's aspirations. With those two things in place, he's absolutely content. Next, he purchases and builds up an appealing high-end night club. First, he pursues Frances Shea (Emily Browning), the perfect girl. The first act of Reggie's story is dedicated to showing him define and realize those goals. Part of Reggie's perfect world includes a perfect family and lifestyle.
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Reggie's vision is to establish a picturesque and perfect empire, while Ronnie's motivation is to hold power and for all to fear him. If their characteristics were blended into one person, then the Krey brothers would make for the best crime lord of all time however, apart makes them the oil-water leaders of an unsteady criminal institution. He has no moral conscious and is capable of terrible and violent things. His temperament is out of control and he's terrifying. The only people to see through it are those in Scotland Yard.
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Reggie is charming, charismatic, intelligent, cool and carries a magnetic personality. If the stereotype that what one twin lacks can be found in the other is true, then it has never been better exemplified than by the Krey brothers. 'Legend' tells the story of London's Kray twins (both played by Tom Hardy), two brothers who reeked havoc in the world of organize crime. Unfortunately, they don't work so well alongside one another. On their own, each of the duplicated elements work quite well. And there are two different stories going on at the same time. There are two drastically different tones that pop up throughout. There are two of everything in 'Legend.' Tom Hardy plays two characters.