Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026)

Film Details

Director: Tom Harper

Run Time: 1hr 52m

Cast: Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Rebecca Ferguson, Sophie Rundle, Tim Roth, Stephen Graham

Synopsis 

Amidst the chaos of World War II, Tommy Shelby returns from a self imposed exile to face his most dangerous reckoning yet.

My Review

The Immortal Man captures the spirit of the Peaky Blinders TV show, sure, it maintains that potent cinematography that always packs a punch and I will never tire of seeing Cillian Murphy as the iconic Tommy Shelby, even the soundtrack and musical score was absolutely perfect! But unfortunately the film format created an underwhelming final product. Restricted by its run time, it ultimately left us with an underdeveloped antagonist and virtually no time to explore the relationship between Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan’s characters. Tim Roth’s villain is one of the most dull and uninspiring antagonists I have ever seen and Peaky Blinders has a legacy for some of the best foes to ever grace our screens, so that’s a rather bitter pill to swallow for me. Rebecca Ferguson, wasted, Tim Roth, wasted, Stephen Graham, wasted and even Barry Keoghan, wasted! I expected better from a Peaky Blinders script.

One of my hopes for the industry is that we abandon the habit of concluding TV shows using a film, it has never worked and I fear it never will. When fans are accustomed to sufficient development for all of their favourite characters, spread across several hour long episodes, how would we ever feel satisfied seeing the epic conclusion tied up in less than two hours? We have seen Tommy Shelby outmanoeuvre the most cunning of foes, yet his death felt meaningless to me. I understand he was ready for death, ready to join his siblings in the afterlife but seeing him go out in such an anticlimactic way is incredibly disappointing, it’s exactly how I felt with Netflix’s conclusion of The Last Kingdom. The Immortal man is a perfectly watchable film, but it hurts me to describe Peaky Blinders in such a way. The show is one of the best pieces of media in modern times and its conclusion has been failed with a mediocre script.

My Rating: 6 out of 10

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