Tom Hardy's London-set crime drama film Legend has found itself a new streaming home in the UK.

The 2015 film features Hardy as both of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, as they ruled London's criminal underworld with an iron first in the Swinging Sixties.

Unfortunately for them, Met Superintendent Nipper Read is dead-set on arresting them, while Ronnie's paranoia threatens to bring everything crashing down.

As well as Hardy, the film boasts an impressive cast, including Christopher Eccleston, Tara Egerton, Colin Morgan, David Thewlis, Emily Browning, and even singer Duffy.

After airing on BBC One over the weekend, the film is available now to stream on iPlayer, although it's only for the next 28 days.

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If you don't have a TV licence but do have a Prime Video subscription, you are also able to stream the film there.

Reviews for the film were mixed, with its Rotten Tomatoes score sitting at a 60% positive score from 171 critic write-ups.

A common theme among the reviews is that the film itself has big issues, but is elevated by Hardy's dual performances.

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"Watching Tom Hardy nearly upstage himself in the gangster biopic Legend is mesmerizing viewing," wrote Toronto Star. "It's also an object lesson in how great acting can transcend a film’s limitations."

The Detroit News stated that the script "gets stuck repeating itself and begins to feel like a house of mirrors" but added that "Hardy's performance — nay, performances — are so electrifying they cut through the confusion".

"Legend is a brash, cartoonish affair, happy to bask in the reflected glory of its subjects' bizarre cultural icon status," wrote Mark Kermode in The Observer, adding that the film is "faintly ridiculous but undeniably entertaining".

Legend is available to stream now on BBC iPlayer and Prime Video.


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