“The Krays: Dead Man Walking” (*** out of four) was a stylish action melodama set in 1966 London about the notorious Krays brothers (Marc Pickering and Nathanjohn Carter) who attempted a daring escape breaking nutjob murderer Frank “The Mad Axerman” Mitchell (Josh Myers) out of Dartmoor Prison but they didn’t count on the seismic rumblings and shifts in underworld power this would bring. Third telling of the Krays’ criminal underworld empire (and second in three years after Tom Hardy’s “Legend”) more than earns its retelling with first-rate acting which make it equal to, if not better than, the 1990 original. Pickering and Myers in particular sear the screen and Rita Simons is terrific as a woman hired to keep Mitchell company on his break from prison.

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