In 1974 a misguided 19-year-old named Michael Peterson (Tom Hardy) decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so with a homemade sawed-off shotgun and a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post office. Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to seven years in jail Peterson has subsequently been behind bars for 34 years 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement. Shot from an intelligent provocative and stylized approach Bronson follows the metamorphosis of Mickey Peterson who nicknamed himself Charles Bronson into Britain s most dangerous prisoner.