Tom Hardy’s Forgotten 67% Rotten Tomatoes Crime Drama Takes Streaming by Storm

Arguably among the biggest television hits of the year, the crime drama MobLand made headlines for beating Taylor Sheridan‘s Yellowstone on the Paramount+ streaming service. The show featured several movie stars on the roster, and was headlined by Tom Hardy, who played a sort of fixer for a London crime family. An Oscar nominee, Hardy has seemingly spent his entire career teetering on the edge of the A-list, despite having spearheaded a popular trilogy of superhero movies and worked with major filmmakers on hit films. However, in the same year that he played Bane in Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight Rises — he also worked with the filmmaker on Dunkirk and Inception — Hardy starred in the crime drama film Lawless. Largely forgotten after over a decade, the movie recently witnessed a surge on streaming.

According to FlixPatrol, Lawless was among the most-watched movies on the domestic Apple TV charts earlier this week, when the leader board was topped by Paul Thomas Anderson‘s One Battle After Another. The movie jumped as high as number four, beating the likes of Tron: Ares, F1, and the Christmastime favorites Home Alone and The Holiday. Released in 2012, Lawless followed three bootlegger brothers during Prohibition. Alongside Hardy, the film featured Shia LaBeouf, Jason Clarke, Jessica Chastain, Gary Oldman, and Guy Pearce. Barring LaBeouf, each member of the central cast has worked with Nolan at some stage in their career.

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Lawless was directed by the Australian filmmaker John Hillcoat, best known for the Western film The Proposition, and the post-apocalyptic drama The Road. Hillcoat’s last movie was the star-studded crime drama Triple 9, which flopped with just $25 million at the worldwide box office in 2016, against a reported budget of $20 million. Lawless, on the other hand, grossed around $55 million worldwide against a reported budget of $25 million. The movie earned mixed reviews and is now sitting at a 67% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The website’s consensus reads, “Grim, bloody, and utterly flawed, Lawless doesn’t quite achieve the epic status it strains for, but it’s too beautifully filmed and powerfully acted to dismiss.”

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