Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man – Review Thread

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man – Review Thread

• Rotten Tomatoes: 90% (20 Reviews)
• Metacritic: 77 (4 Reviews)

Reviews:

Variety:

“The Immortal Man” has an efficient, businesslike way with the story at hand, however silly it might be. And the film works its way toward a finale of more stoic pathos than might be expected from such a canny franchise extension. Dab your eyes with your ties if you must, gents, but keep your vests buttoned.

Deadline:

The Immortal Man is an entertaining slice of British pulp that knows exactly what it is — and Murphy knows exactly what he’s doing in it. To paraphrase Bob Marley, if the cap fits, let him wear it.

IGN (7/10):

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man offers a no-frills wartime backdrop for Cillian Murphy to make a stirring return as Tommy Shelby, with Barry Keoghan standing toe-to-toe with his Irish compadre in a moving match-up. Serving up some dry humor with a few boisterous action set pieces and a thumping contemporary score to boot, director Tom Harper and writer Steven Knight don't color outside the box, which should please fans of the series.

SlashFilm (7/10):

The end result may not be the cleanest or most tightly-wound addition to the series, but it's as essential as it gets — doing for "Peaky Blinders" what "El Camino" did for "Breaking Bad." As the final credits hit, Tommy Shelby remains at a distant remove from us. We may never truly know him, Steven Knight seems to argue, but even he couldn't author a more apt ending than this.

The Independent:

What’s worked before works here just as well. Tommy Shelby persists.

The Wrap (7/10):

While neither Tommy nor the film itself was ever likely to be immortal, the closing frames prove to be a fitting sendoff for him as well as his long, sad saga. For what could very well be the last time, he and Murphy burn bright.

The Guardian (3/5):

Maybe you have to be fully invested in the TV show to really like it, although this canonisation of Tommy is a sentimental treatment of what we actually know of crime gangs in the second world war. Nevertheless, it is a resoundingly confident drama.

Collider (7/10):

The Immortal Man, while obvious at times, also gives you everything you could want in a Peaky Blinders movie. There's angst, there's violence, there's sex, explosions, and swagger. If this truly is the end of the Peaky Blinders as we know them, it’s a devastating one, and it’s hard to imagine anyone taking up the mantle as effectively as the original cast.

The Times (4/5):

The rock soundtrack thumps along with propulsive vigour, the screen pulses with stylish slow-mo from the director Tom Harper, while the top-tier acting duo of Murphy and Keoghan bring some unexpected poignancy to an otherwise familiar Oedipal clash.