Review: Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

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Official synopsis: WWII-era Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) emerges from rural solitude when son Duke's (Barry Keoghan) Birmingham gang strikes a deal with a Nazi agent (Tim Roth), trading war supplies and counterfeit currency that threatens to destabilize Britain's wartime economy.

Peaky Blinders wasn't always a perfect show, but it's one I enjoyed quite a bit. I was late to the party, I didn't start watching until COVID, but you're never too late to start. Peaky Blinder's final season was easily the weakest. One of the main cast members, Helen McCrory passed away from cancer, so they had to completely re-write the story and her Polly Gray was such an integral part of the plot that it was never going to match the greatness of the previous seasons.

Still, even after all of that, I was looking forward to The Immortal Man and getting back into the Peaky universe. I can say as a fan of the series, that I regret watching this movie.

It's not that it's poorly made. It isn't. Cillian Murphy is excellent, Barry Keoghan as an older Duke is great casting. He's very believable as Murphy's son, even though I never loved the concept of Duke as a character in the first place, but I would've much rather been left to my own imagination with what happened to the characters after the TV show.

As nice as it was to see some faces, you also have to deal with their deaths. One of my favorite characters, who I liked to imagine lead a nice long life is murdered. Another important character is killed off screen. Other major players are not even mentioned and it ends up feeling more like a plot hole than a natural progression of where we left the characters in season 6. It just feels unsatisfying.

I thought a lot about El Camino, the movie sequel to Breaking Bad, and how nervous I was watching it because of how I wanted Jesse's story to go. The Immortal Man does the opposite of El Camino. There's no hope. No satisfying conclusions. Maybe the Shelby family was never going to get that, but at least we could pretend.

It's not a bad movie, but from one Peaky fan to another, if you haven't pulled the trigger yet. Skip it.

Grade: C+

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