--- title: Legend Movie Poster Uses Bad Two Star Review in Clever Way description: Poster for movie Legend starring Tom Hardy appears to hide a 2 star review from The Guardian so it looks like Benjamin Lee liked it canonical: https://time.com/4026381/legend-movie-poster-reviews/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-09T15:21:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:08.333Z og:title: Legend Movie Poster Uses Bad Two Star Review in Clever Way og:description: Poster for movie Legend starring Tom Hardy appears to hide a 2 star review from The Guardian so it looks like Benjamin Lee liked it og:url: https://time.com/4026381/legend-movie-poster-reviews/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Legend Movie Poster Uses Bad Two Star Review in Clever Way twitter:description: Poster for movie Legend starring Tom Hardy appears to hide a 2 star review from The Guardian so it looks like Benjamin Lee liked it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # See How This Movie Poster Cleverly Hides a Bad Review ## Video: 100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes [Watch (HLS stream): 100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/tfrXo5zL.m3u8) (5:21)  _Published 2014-02-12. Time has taken the highest grossing film each year for the past century and crammed them into 5 and a half minutes. No Intermission._  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 9, 2015 3:21 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 9, 2015 3:21 PM UTC What do you do when you have a film poster to design and a bad review? Get creative. A film critic for _The Guardian_ noticed that a movie poster for _Legend_ appears to make it look like he liked the film. The two stars that Benjamin Lee gave the film in his [review](http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/03/legend-review-tom-hardy-on-double-duty-in-cartoonish-krays-biopic) fit perfectly between the heads of the two notorious British gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, both played by Tom Hardy. > [](https://twitter.com/benfraserlee/status/641368752798306304) Of course, if moviegoers looked up the critique, they would likely be shocked that it was noted on the poster at all, given the review describes the film as “a disappointingly shallow take” that makes one feel, not “transported,” but “stuck on a tour bus,” and, to top it all off, argues that the narration is “lazy shorthand for a script that’s lacking in depth but overflowing with bad dialogue.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4026381/legend-movie-poster-reviews/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4026381/legend-movie-poster-reviews/"},"headline":"See How This Movie Poster Cleverly Hides a Bad Review","datePublished":"2015-09-09T15:21:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:08.333Z","description":"But wait until you see what the review actually says","url":"https://time.com/4026381/legend-movie-poster-reviews/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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