The Krays: Dead Man Walking

This is obviously a "Someone made a film about the Krays last year: we should get in on that audience before they get bored with it" type of effort. How fortunate that movies aren't shot on celluloid anymore, for this would have been a criminal waste of material. I only watched it because I was intrigued to see if Leslie Grantham (remember him?) could play a police officer even as well as a piece of driftwood could. Sadly, I was disappointed, much to the shame of Mr Grantham who I believe didn't even live to see it released! If only they had at least bothered to cast a pair of twins as a pair of twins, it might have helped, instead of us having to watch two "hoodahells" constantly having to refer to each other by character names so that we could tell who they were meant to be.

Peter Oxley has posted here. He is executive producer of this utterly dire movie and thus hardly impartial. It is also unethical and bad form to review and grade your own film. This space is for ordinary members of the public to express their opinions, not for producers to push their tawdry wares. It is dishonest of Oxley not to declare his vested interest.

The only reason to even attempt to 'review' this rubbish is to try and understand how so many adults involved in the making of this could possibly think that it was in any way a portrayal of the Krays or London's underground or London in the 1960's in anyway shape or form. From the absurdly fake accents.. "We are Old School!' to the amateurish attempt at Costume.... makes this truly one of the worse Movies I have ever tried to watch. With so many documented photographs of Ronnie and Reg, wouldn't you even begin to cast someone with the slightest resemblance to the twins? I challenge anyone to find a photo of Reg with a 5o'Clock shadow. Lord Boothby could have been played by Boris or Benny Hill as opposed to a skinny Etonian and without doubt Lesley (Dirty Den) Grantham must be happy from above that this was his last film. Why? Why? Why? If Ronnie and Reg were still with us, I'm sure that these 'filmmakers' would have been paid a visit! Dreadful.

An awful film about two of Londons biggest gangsters, portrayed by two actors with clearly no attempt to find lookalikes and one of them has a London accent that constantly slips back into a country Plymouth accent. What really makes me laugh, and the film industry needs to clamp down on this, is using a plastic actress such as Nerissa whose face is so pumped full of botox, it don't move, in a film supposedly from the 60's. Two stars for Linda Lusardi 😊

I am not sure which is worse: the casting, the acting or the dialogue. Being historically incorrect seems inconsequential given that none of it is believably acted even if it were a true representation of the facts.An appalling and badly made film. A total waste of time.