Review of The Krays

The Krays (1990)
10/10
Real Krays Unimportant Next to Movie
29 October 2003
The only people who complain about this movie on this comment board are

people who have some idea about what the Krays were really like and they

dislike the movie because it does parrot back at them ideas they already

hold. Well, I'd never heard of the Krays before I saw this movie and

I've never heard them mentioned in any other context since I saw this

movie, so ultimately, it really doesn't matter at all what the real

Krays were really like. To call this wondeful, creepy, scary,

entertaining and well observed movie "rubbish" is to fundamentally

misunderstand how movies work or what they are supposed to do. Stick to

the History Channel if all you want is history. And stick to

eavesdropping at Starbucks if you want to hear how people really talk.

If you want a dazzling exploration of psychic violence passed through

generations, and the creeping horror of living side-by-side with

homicidal maniacs who are strangely beloved by a hero-starved populace,

the watch The Kra
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