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Every Tom Hardy Movie, Ranked
If there’s one thing this guy loves, it’s a weird little voice.
His Detective Michaels primarily exists as a character to receive exposition dumps from Forster’s Liutenant Weber about how long the NYPD have been chasing Freeman’s Ripley, but Hardy’s performance is serviceable enough, and it showcases one of his first attempts at the American accent he’d default to for years to come. Based on the same-named thriller by Tom Rob Smith, the film is set in the USSR in the 1950s and stars Hardy as a Soviet agent and war hero whose investigation into a series of child murders puts him in conflict with both the state and one of his professional rivals (Joel Kinnaman). Hardy plays Ivan Locke, a construction foreman who is the only figure onscreen for the film’s two hours; during that runtime, we see and hear him make dozens of phone calls to the people in his life, varying his voice, tone, and delivery as he vacillates between speaking to his boss, to his protégé, to his family, to police officers, and to his mistress, whose in labor with his child.
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