Tom Hardy's character was basically established in.... shooting a pig while his brother couldn't, that was his entire back story, at no stage did he actually do anything else remotely interesting in the film.
The drunk brothers character was dull as anything, the runt was the biggest part but still mostly, boring.
Weird things that made no sense to me
Oldman knew the his name, and would have made money off selling booze(and getting more in the future) yet got almost to shooting him before he told him he worked at the gas station at which point we see he doesn't want a blood fued. But he knew his name, he knew the brother, and had no reason this was a bad deal.
The final shoot out was, ridiculous, 20-30 guys all pointing a gun at Pearce... but he shoots Hardy what 3 times they all open fire, no one hits him, he walks most of the way through the tunnel... and idiot face walks up and shoots him.
AFAIk there was no hint they were following Shia up to the stills, even though they whole film was avoiding cops and keeping stills hidden, despite no sign of these guys, entire trucks of cops show up out of nowhere, and no one cares when he murders a cripple(the other cops).
Hardy establishes a relationship with the red head, based off about seven words and a few looks. She left LV was it, to get away from gangsters and bad people, but despite having basically never spoken to him, decided it was better to move in to the building she was (I assume), beaten and raped with a target on the gangs back, rather than move on as she had thought to before, so any other safe town in america, she stays the one place she said she didn't want to, for a non existant love connection.
I saw someone say that potentially a directors edition might have loads of extra scenes with Hardy/Pearce and fixing a few of the issues and actually making some of the characters interesting but there is so little there to start with. I can't see anything good about the film, acting, barely any to be done, story, there wasn't much, action, there wasn't much, dialogue, usually boring/stupid.
Both films are good in their own ways. I liked how they give a nod to certain parts of the original TR i.e. the fat woman with the yellow coat "2 weeks"
