I never like giving a low score to a film, but after watching this I don't really see how I can possibly grade it any higher then a four. I'll start with the positives, in terms of period detail, it looked really good, the clothes, the cars, I felt they did a fairly good job at capturing the atmosphere of the era.
Sadly the film never engaged me, I've read some of the books on The Krays, and at no point did I feel the two leads I was watching in this were the Kray Brothers, firstly appearance, I know you can't expecting a perfect likeness, but they just seemed a little off. In terms of them as characters, that is where I had main issues, possibly it would have worked better as an independent film, nothing to do with the Krays.
I felt Simon Cotton did a slightly better job in the role of Ronnie, but only marginally.
Compared to Tom Hardy's film, it's quite a pale comparison, overall a poor follow up to an average opener. 4/10
Sadly the film never engaged me, I've read some of the books on The Krays, and at no point did I feel the two leads I was watching in this were the Kray Brothers, firstly appearance, I know you can't expecting a perfect likeness, but they just seemed a little off. In terms of them as characters, that is where I had main issues, possibly it would have worked better as an independent film, nothing to do with the Krays.
I felt Simon Cotton did a slightly better job in the role of Ronnie, but only marginally.
Compared to Tom Hardy's film, it's quite a pale comparison, overall a poor follow up to an average opener. 4/10