Quartile rating: 7.5/10 · 1 rating
After his estranged son gets embroiled in a Nazi plot, self-exiled gangster Tommy Shelby must return to Birmingham to save his family — and his nation.
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man carries the franchise's signature strengths — commanding performances led by Cillian Murphy and atmospheric, stylized cinematography that defined the TV series — into a cinematic format. The plot competently escalates stakes by weaving personal family drama with a wartime Nazi conspiracy, though the father-son estrangement and redemption arc feels familiar within the Shelby mythology, and the Nazi-plot thriller structure is well-trodden genre territory. Novelty suffers most: as a big-screen extension of an existing IP, it builds on established world and characters rather than breaking new ground, and the 1940s gangster-meets-wartime-espionage framework, while executed with polish, doesn't distinguish itself conceptually from other prestige crime dramas. The ending provides emotional closure for Tommy's arc but leans into the fatalistic, pyrrhic-victory mode the franchise has always favored, satisfying fans without being revelatory. A strong franchise entry rather than a landmark film.