For a thread dedicated to Hardy, I'm surprised at so little mention of Legend. The Krays were a pair of nutjobs, and he did a great job distinguishing the two brothers in the dual role.
Maybe the story behind it all was a big part of the reason why I liked it, not sure.
I'm also surprised at the amount of people praising his work in The Dark Knight Rises. His face was near hidden in virtually the whole movie, and the voice over was terrible. If you want to compliment his physical acting I suppose, but they could have cast just about any actor in the role of Bane and it wouldn't have made it any better or worse.