You'd think that Tom Hardy wants to be Gary Oldman with the sheer number of accents he's attempted in a relatively short space of time - and after trying his hand at a number of British and American variations, he opted for a Russian accent in the recent Child 44. You won't be surprised to learn that Hardy's performance in Child 44 is just as weird as his strange and somehow mesmerising accent - it's a bizarre turn from the actor in general, though he still manages to be the best thing about the lacklustre movie on the whole.Part of the weirdness to be associated with his detective character in Child 44 is the voice he opts for, which is essentially a stereotypically thick Russian accent that dips in and out of sounding like an accent from various other Eastern European countries (but mostly Transylvania). It isn't bad, nor is it good - it's merely a Tom Hardy accent, all the way.