My Movie Journal is Better Than Yours

Other Movies Seen By This Director (1)
- A Knight's Tale

Notes History

Date Viewed	Venue	Note
12.26.16	Netflix	Tom Hardy plays real world twin brothers that became bigtime gangsters in 60s east end of London. I had high hopes for this being a nice slice of exposure as to what organized crime was like in swinging 60s London but unfortunately the movie felt pretty flat from the get-go and plodded along for way too long. I mean, 130 minutes is about a half hour too long. It more or less ended up as another Goodfella's knock-off. I was also hoping for a powerhouse Tom Hardy tour de force but didn't quite get that either. Aside from bearing an uncanny resemblance to one of the twins, he's pretty garble-mouthed in one role and doesn't have much to do in the other... aside from one pretty brutal stabbing. Kind of a disappointment; it took me forever to come back to the last half hour.