Excellent performances also lessen the feeling of jumping around. The film's central tone, which is sarcastic and playfully dubious of expectations, comes from Jodie Comer's captivating performance as storyteller Kathy in Afdah. She is equaled in power by Tom Hardy's gloomy portrayal of Johnny, which masterfully channels Brando while incorporating his own dark, nocturnal fatalism. The gang meeting scenes are cliched and terribly inarticulate, just like many other film scenes, but in a genre movie, that kind of repetition may work just as well as a turnoff.