Lawless - four drama hearts

Tom Hardy is superb as Forest Bondurant; a hard looking, fast acting, no talking hero with not a little sex appeal despite the grubby 1930's Depression wardrobe.Shia Labouf as always can do no wrong; the little brother that does his damnest to bring down the bootlegging empire his brother's built. And as for Guy Pearce, can we love him any more? As a sleazey baddie in this drama he's right on the money; we just love to hate him.

It's not a fast paced film like Die Hard, but the suspense is well held and moves the audience along nicely as we learn about bootlegging in the Virginia heartland and begin to believe the legendary status woven around the surly Bondurant Gang.

The soundtrack's not too shabby either with writer Nick Cave adding his talent to the Bootleggers gritty picking sounds. I bought the album. Well ok, three of the songs.