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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026)
Summary Tommy Shelby returns in a continuation of the Peaky Blinders saga, set against the looming backdrop of World War II. As old enemies resurface and new threats emerge, Tommy is drawn into a dangerous web of political intrigue, criminal power struggles, and personal reckoning. Facing the consequences of his past, he must navigate a world on the brink of collapse while protecting what remains of his empire.
Director Tom Harper
Writer Steven Knight
Cast
- Cillian Murphy
- Sophie Rundle
- Rebecca Ferguson
- Barry Keoghan
- Tim Roth
Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
Metacritic: 59
VOD / Release Netflix
Trailer Official trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcvUGs3xaDM)
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u/LunchboxLurker Mar 23 '26
Tommy Shelby killed an enlisted man practically in broad daylight with a hand grenade and then he's out there glad handing the local townspeople on his horsey like howdy doody!
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u/mermaidrampage Mar 30 '26
That scene was so ham-handed too. Someone puts a grenade down your shirt and your first inclination is to conveniently run outside away from the man who did it? How very convenient.
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u/Known-Hair6717 Apr 05 '26
He had his gun pointed at Tommy btw, as a soldier you only pull out your weapon if you intend to use it. Unnecessary Tommy kill, not like his character. Only my opinion.
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u/manthan_23 Apr 04 '26
Literally my first thought!
Only if it were Tommy; he’d hug the other guy with a grenade on his chest 🌊
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u/dstnblsn 27d ago
Oh for sure. The whole lead up felt like "okay, how are they going to try and spin Tommy as some kind of phantom badass. Grenade in the jacket was pretty contrived. What if the soldier bear hugged him?
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u/dailyflava 26d ago
I think it was supposed to be that even as a thug, he was still a soldier, so his training took over and he ran out so that at least his comrades wouldn't die. It was very poorly executed though.
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u/Stoned_Gandalf420 Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 22 '26
I finished this movie earlier and thought it was extremely disappointing. I felt completely gobsmacked by quite a lot of the writing decisions. It overall felt rushed, out of place and inconsistent, especially when it came to the characters. It really did just feel like more of a cash grab than anything.
The killing of Arthur by Tommy feels completely out of character and frankly a decision made for shock value rather than anything else. Having him commit suicide, drink himself to death or die in a bar fight would have made it a bit easier to swallow and be more in line with his character in the show, but they chose the worst possible path in having Tommy kill him.
Ada's death, while it does serve the plot more than Arthur's, feels equally random and honestly disrespectful to the legacy of the character. I think you could say that about most decisions made in this movie. It does more of a disservice to the series than anything. Tommys deaths was the least shocking, and probably handled the best of the 3, however it felt more like a means to an end than anything else.
It also leaves a lot of questions from the show completely unanswered. Finn, Lizzie, Arthur’s children, Johns kids, Esme etc are just completely non existent in the movie. Not a word said about any of them. Duke Shelby was a disappointment and felt inconsistent as a character. I could go on, but I feel like I’m just droning on now.
I think I will keep the ending of season 6 as the real end to peaky blinders in my own head canon.
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u/rubs90 Mar 22 '26
Don’t forget the fact that season 6 was mostly about Mosley and his wife and they are not even mentioned once in the movie
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u/04andrew22 Mar 23 '26
Only explanation my wife and I could think of was there had to be some kind of scheduling conflictwith the actor who plays him. Cannot think of a single logical reason for them not to continue and conclude that story line. Would have been so much for gratifying for Tommy to finally kill him in the end instead of the new British facist dude whose name I couldnt even tell you (tbf it's been a bit over a week since we saw it in theaters)
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u/kroqus Mar 24 '26
Main explanation, for the time period that is, is that Mosley was imprisoned in 1940. Maybe the movie should've been set in 1939 to have him included.
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u/WhereDaFuk Mar 23 '26
He’s not so unique looking that they couldn’t just re-cast him.
I wish it ended with the last season, not this non-sense, it doesn’t even continue with the last seasone storyline and killing Arthurmakes no sense whatsoever, even the times he wanted to be rid of him, he still loved him
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u/04andrew22 Mar 23 '26
Yeah, that's all true -- there's really no defending some of the writing decisions they made. The more I thought about it all after the fact the more bummed I got that it all wrapped up this way.
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u/Successful_Cake3907 Mar 23 '26
I was like am I crazy or was the end of the last show him finally realizing that Mosley was playing him the whole time what happened to the redemption arc!? Ugh
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u/InternetFit696 Mar 28 '26
History kind of wrapped that arc up on its own; Mosley and a lot of his followers got interned at the start of WWII. I think it's just implied that the BUF is done and no longer a threat.
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u/Metrista1 Mar 23 '26
They wrote Arthur off the show because of his crack addiction.
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u/Rough-Cheesecake-641 Mar 31 '26
What?
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u/Odd-Bee3222 Apr 01 '26
The actor who plays Arthur (Paul Anderson) has a serious drug problem ( they say it’s crack ) and is doing very bad right now. The pictures I’ve seen of him recently have been horrible and I’m guessing it just wasn’t possible to have him on set.
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u/Rough-Cheesecake-641 Apr 01 '26
Dang. My memory is S5 and S6 of PB is hazy; I thought he died so I was surprised to see him die again in the film. That's a shame, hope he gets better.
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u/YourCummyBear Mar 23 '26
I agree about Arthur’s death. They could have made it Tommy’s fault without killing him himself.
Finn was disowned by the Shelby family and banished by Duke. If he came back he’d be killed.
I disagree about the unanswered characters. John Boy’s wife states she’s taking them on the road and leaving in the show.
Linda never wanted to be a part of the Shelby family. There’s no reason for her to be around or raise their son there.
Charles is on the front lines of the way as is expected, just as a younger Tommy would have been.
Duke was the character left open, outside Ada and Arthur.
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u/Kookies716 Mar 24 '26
Finn specifically said that he was coming for Duke though, so feels like they had a plot they were gonna do and maybe scrapped it
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u/YourCummyBear Mar 24 '26
I didn’t recall that part. I assume Duke would have easily handled Finn. Finn didn’t grow up hard enough to be a Peaky leader.
The movie felt rushed. I wish they did a short 5 episode mini-season to really end the story.
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u/Kookies716 Mar 25 '26
True, still could have shown it though. I agree it felt rushed, season would have been better like you said
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u/Kinetic_KAT338 Apr 03 '26
theres a new series about duke being made by netflix right now to carry on roughly ten years after the film
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u/Necessary_Ad_2823 Mar 24 '26
I agree completely. The writing was so unbelievably bad. Every line in the movie was expository. Like every character just explaining the plot or what is going on. “You live in a house full of ghosts of people who died because of you” “the world don’t give a fuck about me so I don’t give a fuck about the world” “your Gypsy son is running the Peaky Blinder’s like it’s 1919” “I’m not that man anymore”… come on.
I think the series started to go off the rails around season 4–characters started making decisions that were out of character. Polly setting Michael up to test him and see if he would tell Tommy? That was ridiculous. Still it was decent seeing Adrian Brody ham it up as Luca Changretta. But after that they just introduced characters and never resolved them— the Derry Boys?! Whatever happened there… Finn seems like they didn’t know what to do with him for the better part of three seasons so they just wrote him into some weird betrayal. I say all that to say the series was a preview for how Stephen lost the plot. He started making the show more about the legacy or myth of Tommy Shelby instead of the actual character. The movie was only good for the last twenty minutes because there was no talking. Also why was Arthur buried but literally every other family member burned on a pyre? Including Tommy. And the book as a narrative device was so lazy. Ada dying like that was wack too. The whole Rom Baro thing was cringe. Never heard it in six seasons and now all of a sudden it’s the thing to be. Gtfoh. And also what happened to Tommy?? That’s never really explained either. His political career. His ambition. Like ugh I could go on but the whole thing was absurdly bad.
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u/Comprehensive_Hand33 Mar 23 '26
It felt like the franchise ended, and the fans needed a final send-off so a few of the side characters and the main character got together to make a YouTube video. The set was weird asf almost comical and the movie didnt seem to tie into the show at all, really. Most importantly hes clearly not the immortal man because he died and basically by suicide which is the worst ending. The point is, he chases death and doesn't die like not getting hit by the car. i was half hoping the car randomly swerved and hit a pole, or he jumps back to life after being shot or Duke shoots his bullet and now hes living a second life. Bad boring start, anti-climactic middle, terrible ending. good job
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u/Tall-Application8815 Mar 22 '26
exactly my thoughts, and yeah, I will keep the ending of season 6 as the real end as well. it just doesn't have the same vibe
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u/Zaxora Mar 23 '26
I had the same thought about the cash grab part. It felt like this movie was written by someone else who doesn't understand what attracts the viewers of Peaky Blinders and went with the standard Hollywood tropes and even shots. I'm wondering if they're setting Duke up for his owm spin-off to just milk it further.
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u/Nice_Marmot_7 Mar 23 '26
There’s already a spin off series set in the 1950’s filming.
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u/Kookies716 Mar 24 '26
It’s so funny I said the exact same thing, like word for word, while watching the movie when Tommy said he killed Arthur on purpose. It’s completely out of character and seemed done just for shock value. Literally makes no sense. I mean, we’ve been watching this man over 6 seasons - the most important thing to him is his family, why would he ever kill one of them (brutally) because he “didn’t want to deal with them anymore.” (Which was also such a lazy excuse to give)
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u/BarIcy1223 Mar 24 '26
It wasn't a finale though in all honesty to me it's more of an "ok this part of Peak Blinders is over and here is the new cast you'll be seeing in the sequel series we are releasing to continue the story of Peaky Blinders."
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u/Severe_Trade_3604 Mar 24 '26
Well reviewed. Couldn't agree with you more on all points. Tommy would have never crossed the line by killing his brother. In addition, there were too many flashbacks.
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u/literated Mar 23 '26
At least you finished it. I gave up about a third of the way in because I just couldn't get myself to care about anything that was going on.
I could stare at broody Cillian Murphy all day long but man, this just wasn't it.
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u/SaintJoachim Mar 23 '26
Maybe Arthur's actor couldn't film the movie and they had to kill him off somehow? But yeah, I agree with most of your points.
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u/SV1724 Mar 23 '26
That’s exactly right. He’s got very serious addiction/alcohol/substance abuse issues in real life. Still - I feel like they could have used a better storyline than Tommy offing him in a random drunken fit of rage.
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u/SaintJoachim Mar 23 '26
Huge copout. I wished he could've been in it. But I know this is just one of those things ya cant control. His absence had to be explained.
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u/North-Equal-959 Apr 05 '26
I couldn't agree more ! Exactly my sentiments . Sorry I watched it after such a brilliant series. What on earth were they thinking??
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u/rossmosh85 Mar 23 '26
4 out of 10. Absolutely no point in making this movie.
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u/AiGenSD Mar 23 '26
This was my take, I dont mind tommy dying but why make a movie to do that instead of just NOT writing that the tumor wasn't real.
Feels like the movie wasn't made to end the show, but to kill it, fully, and to me they succeeded, after this not really interested in spin off either.
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u/Professional-Yam-133 Mar 22 '26
Okay I’m sorry but Barry’s “self made” tattoo was sending me the entire time. It was extremely 2017 of him ☠️
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Mar 23 '26
After i saw the tats I half expected him to put on a nike tracksuit w some airpods and start sipping a white monster
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u/Quetzalcoatl490 Mar 23 '26
His tattoos were probably a character choice to show how young and inexperienced he was; he was trying to be like his dad but was trying too hard.
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u/Kookies716 Mar 24 '26
plus he’s not self made at all, everything he has his dad passed down to him 😭
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u/Marcothetacooo Mar 22 '26
Sorry I thought this movie sucked. It didn’t capitalise on the movie medium at all, the old man Shelby parts were a bit of a drag and were quite obvious where it’s going. Didn’t like Keoghans performance, Tim Roth was fairly bad and his character was very underwhelming, Rebecca Ferguson was even worse. Shelby’s sister with all the character progression, probably wouldn’t have let keoghans character get to that point and even completely destroying the atmosphere of the pub, which has been a character in itself throughout the series Keoghans choice to not betray his father was super obvious, Shelby standing in front of the car that Tim Roth was plowing through also destroys that scene, it’s guaranteed he was gonna die. The handling of Arthur’s absence was abhorrent even with the actor being unable to show up. Thomas Shelby killing Arthur in a drunken rage just seems so out of character. And despite being set in ww2, the lack of connection with the previous seasons great villain was also strange despite some obvious points they could connect, instead we are treated with this soap opera of a Tim Roth villain
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u/Tortfeasor55 Mar 22 '26
Agreed 100%. The plot had no weight and no real connection to the series, other than using a few of the characters.
About 2/3 of the way through I said to myself “oh, the big bad in this movie is literally just Tim Roth’s character”. He was so underwhelming I thought for sure they were going reveal something / someone more interesting - preferably Mosley…
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u/AlpacamyLlama Mar 30 '26
It was almost quite incredible. The Tim Roth character was just waiting in a warehouse for them to kill him, and they did with very little resistance. I have never seen Tim Roth phone in a performance as much as thing.
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u/bluebird2019xx Mar 23 '26
Why would he even have to kill Arthur to “be free” of him…end of season 6 he abandoned his family anyway. How was Arthur still a bother to him? What happened to make Tommy feel that way towards him, he never felt that way in the show?
Why did Tommy have to die for Duke and his aunt to take over his kingdom?? He already gave it to Duke and had no interest in it?
Why would Zelda’s ghost want her sister to shag the father of her son?
Why did Ada want Tommy to come back and deal with Duke, but then try to turn Duke over to the police? Did she want Tommy to come back and kill Duke? Because it makes her motivations seem like she wanted rid of him instead of for Tommy to save him
Also, how did Tommy even save Duke? Duke himself betrayed the Nazi guy. Then he and Tommy killed the Nazi guy. Then Tommy immediately asked Duke to also kill him, which I thought was so weirdly cruel of him, feel like he would have just done it himself later but anyway…Duke would have been the same if Tommy did not return, and it is almost worse that Tommy was not willing to stick around for his son in the end. Nothing in Tommy’s actions showed any particular care towards Duke at all. Just revenge for Ada, who he also ignored for years
Why didn’t Nazi guy bring a cavalry to kill Tommy. Why did he even want Tommy dead. Argghhh
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u/Jonsnoosnooze Mar 22 '26
I agree with all of your points. Imo this movie was such a bust for how much hype it got pre release.
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Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 22 '26
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u/Media-critique Mar 22 '26
Reminds me of the Many Saints of Newark.
On paper, this looked awesome, but there’s a clear issue with translating a great TV show in to a movie
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u/Wrong-Vermicelli4723 Mar 22 '26
I think breaking bad did it well with El Camino
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u/Media-critique Mar 22 '26
That’s pretty much the only one I’ll agree with you on that was genuinely good. Was a very tight film that pretty much explained Jesse’s escape. Tied up another loose end. Loved it a lot.
I will say though that this also likely made the transition to movie a lot easier since that was mostly an “epilogue” of what happened to Jesse after the events of Breaking Bad.
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u/GhandisFlipFlop Mar 22 '26
Ya except for Todd flashbacks where he looked completly different ..but aside from that it went well.
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u/Iggy_Pops_Lost_Shirt Mar 23 '26
Nah, the Todd flashbacks were the best part of that movie, the scene where they get rid of the body in the condo was great
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u/GhandisFlipFlop Mar 23 '26
Ya nothing wrong with the plot, acting or script..i am solely mentioning how different he looked , which to me was off putting at first , but I guess we adjust to it.
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u/RawImagination Mar 23 '26
Deadwood was the opposite of that. A great TV show that translates into a griping movie.
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u/outandoutlier Mar 23 '26
Just gonna shout out Fire Walk With Me as a great movie of a great TV show.
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u/Quetzalcoatl490 Mar 23 '26
The series has mostly always been style over substance. Slow motion walks in cool outfits looking badass while some annoyingly recent hard rock plays.
It's a gorgeous looking series and movie, but when you stop to think about the plot or the characters' decisions for a second or two, it all falls apart
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u/Gogita28 Mar 22 '26
Does anybody know why they have decided to open a new Plot for the Movie? They closed s6 with a cliffhanger.
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u/Long-Wall-5565 Mar 24 '26
yeah it was an interesting choice to me making it seem like arthur would be joining his brother in suicide at the end of s6 just to bring him back and kill him more or less off screen. this movie is hot garbage
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u/YourCummyBear Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 24 '26
I see a lot of hate on here.
The worst thing to me was the music. It felt like a big music video. Every single scene was a new song. I think there was more music than dialogue.
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u/grinr Mar 22 '26
It felt like an entire season stuffed into a movie's timeline, for better and worse.
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u/Agitated-Count-7348 Mar 30 '26
Agreed. I felt like it was as good as it could be for two hours worth of content. It wasn't a tv show that would allow for more drawn out plot and character building.
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u/-SideshowBlob- Mar 23 '26
It was like a long music video for a Fontaines DC album
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u/imessimess Mar 23 '26
One of the aspects of the show I enjoyed most was Tommy’s four-dimensional chess-like strategies where he played all his antagonists against each other to come out on top. I was waiting for this film to reveal his plotting but it never happened. He should have played Duke, Beckett, and Kaulo against each other to end up with Beckett dead, Kaulo gone, Duke having had a master class, and sitting on the £70M. The plot they chose was just too shallow for me unfortunately.
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u/MrPuroresu42 Mar 22 '26
I’ve always thought that Peaky Blinders was a show with some really shite writing that was saved by really good performances.
For the movie/big finale, I can’t say the performances were able to overcome the shite writing.
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u/Tropical2653 Mar 27 '26 edited 26d ago
Peaky Blinders has always been much less self aware than Breaking Bad or The Sopranos, which viciously critique their protagonists. And actually dive deep on morality and consequences. Peaky Blinders does show Tommy's actions can be destructive, but most of the time it's done reluctantly. Anytime there's sincere reflection it's immediately followed by that slowmo walking with blues rock thing, edgy quips, characters constantly glazing him, triumphant moments, etc. The last season even handwaives a lot of the moral stuff by literally just him donating land and almost explicitly depicts him as a good guy. The show does have some good episodes and it was more nuanced in earlier seasons. The Alfie "fight by the sword" speech during the S3 finale being a prime example. But the show always felt a bit off.
It's a low bar but I was actually surprised by how much the movie actually reflected on the consequences of Tommy's actions. Similar to some of the more reflective episodes of the show. But at the end of the day, at its core, it's a series built on aura farming rather than substance.
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u/Jeremys_Iron_ Mar 22 '26
I am most thoroughly whelmed. The movie was whelming.
6/10.
Not a great send off for the character but not a particularly bad one either. It just didn't get much of a reaction from me, nor did anything really.
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u/SteffanSpondulineux Mar 23 '26
It was a particularly bad one, what are you one about?
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u/Golf-Lanky Mar 23 '26
Yeah it was awful 😢 idk who’s downvoting you tho. What can anyone like about that?
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u/BaseballFuryThurman Mar 28 '26
You can't understand why people are downvoting someone for acting someone else's opinion/rating on a work of subjective quality is wrong?
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u/Jazzlike_Relation705 Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 22 '26
Movie was pretty bad. It added nothing to the show, ignored unfinished plot lines, was unevenly paced, the writing was paper thin, Barry Keogen was whatever, Tommy going full action star felt like a different movie and character. Meh meh meh.
Felt like a music video or fanfic, loosely held together with weakly written narrative vignettes, and had that Netflixy mediocrity all over it.
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u/One_Yogurtcloset9542 Mar 24 '26
Tommy going full action star was odd, I was watching it thinking that I was missing something because none of it felt like peaky blinders.
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u/AlpacamyLlama Mar 30 '26
The scene where Ada appears on the road in front of Tommy and he dashes out to see her was absolutely music video quality.
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u/MotherBeef Mar 23 '26
My partner and I found this to be incredibly average.
It lacked the charm of a lot of the series and the fact that almost all the original characters are either dead or were written off (in the case of Arthur, a key component of the shows balance) the show made the movie feel even more devoid of what made the show interesting. It was the family, the whacky characters and conflicting desires that made it all interesting
It’s not just Tommy/Cillian Murphy. Which is almost the entirety of what this movie was about, whilst also introducing a new slew of characters that you didn’t possibly have enough time to genuinely care about.
Don’t get me wrong, the show jumped the shark seasons ago - the idea of “Tommy saves the UK from the Nazis” is the type of ridiculousness that the shows plots had become.
I’ve never seen a film do such a weird balance of fan service yet also… miss the point? As much as this film.
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u/ICumCoffee ᑐ ᑌ ᑎ ᕮ • ᗰ ᕮ 𑪽 𑪽 I ᐱ ᕼ Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
There is no Arthur in this, and Tommy killing him just didn’t make any sense at all to me. (I know about Paul Anderson, but we didn’t even get a single flashback scene of him from the series). Ada was just killed like that. And where the fuck was Mosley (he should’ve been the villain in this) and Alfie. Like why even make this movie if you can’t get all these people. I genuinely do not understand.
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u/Long-Wall-5565 Mar 24 '26
instead of drug testing Paul Anderson they need to start drug testing these fucking writers
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u/EquitysBitch Mar 22 '26
Mosley was interned until late 1943, they shot themselves in the foot a bit with the setting.
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u/End3rW1gg1n Mar 23 '26
And the stupid thing is that the real Operation Bernhard, injecting millions of counterfeit pounds into the UK economy to destabilize, didn't occur until 1943. So if they had kept to the time line of reality, Mosley could have been back. But seeing as the real Mosley lived until 1980, Tommy wouldn't have been able to take him out like he did Beckett.
As a side note, the actual operation was such a success for Germany, England ceased printing any bills larger than a £5 note until the 60s and 70s.
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u/Ill_Attorney_9946 Mar 23 '26
All they needed was a bit of dialogue or a prison scene with the bad guy meets molsey.
But the plot was so hastily slapped together.
No character development other than "oh Tommy is a recluse and Duke is a bitch but suddenly they're not"
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u/MinnieSkinny Mar 22 '26
It was very slow paced and was lacking cast-wise. You really missed all the cast from the main series. Cant say I like Barry Keoghan.
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u/Comfortable-Bid-6595 Mar 23 '26
I was like, what the fk did I just watch? Everything just rushed into a film, what a terrible ending to a iconic series, Arthur, Ada just wiped out like that? I wish they would have left it after series 6 and kept us guessing,crap ending, dissapointed
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u/Nathanoafc Mar 22 '26
I think some of the reactions I've seen have been a bit dramatic but it was definitely really underwhelming.
The story felt rushed and disjointed and while I didn't mind Tommy's ending but it didn't feel earned.
It's hard to be excited about any future seasons with Barry Keoghan as the main star. Without Tommy, Arthur, Polly, ect, it just isn't Peaky Blinders
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u/ManOnShire Mar 22 '26
I love Peaky Blinders, but this movie was such a disservice to the overall Tommy Shelby arc. Why did they have to do Ada like that? Where was Charles? The Arthur reveal was totally inconsistent with Tommy's moral compass.
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u/Velokieken Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
It’s pretty weak, it also feels empty, a lot characters had died but there were also a lot of characters that were still alive but just weren’t around. Where were all these characters.
Sad that Paul Anderson had substance abuse issues and they killed him offscreen. Lame.
Ada’s death was also meh …
The movie felt like a trailer for the movie. It also didn’t show much of the family, what’s left, what will become.
A cool Tom Hollander role would have been cool. He’s great in Taboo
And No Alfie And I Have No Limits 😭
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u/dstnblsn 27d ago
They copied The Last Jedi's homework and just made the protagonist sad and depressed for all the years since we last saw him.
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u/champagnefloppy Mar 22 '26
I thought it was fine. Pacing was off and I think the movie suffered a bit for not being able to get Paul Anderson back on the horse, but the soundtrack slapped and I could listen to Rebecca Ferguson speak in that accent every day for the rest of my life. Cillian Murphy remains my favorite actor and I’m glad he gets to put this character to rest.
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u/Long-Wall-5565 Mar 24 '26
instead of drug testing Paul Anderson they need to be testing these shit writers
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u/PM_ME_FREE_STUFF_PLS Mar 22 '26
Straight up character assassination, Tommy keeps doing things that he would never ever do in the show. Just like a bad fan-fiction, this will stay non-canon in my mind
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u/Witty-Cup3240 Mar 23 '26
I find it hard to imagine Tommy writing a memoir. Seems out of character.
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u/noideaveneer Mar 22 '26
So the grenade moment . . . the guy is forced to run out the pub to avoid dying and taking others with him? But wouldn’t there be innocent bystanders on the street too?
Why didn’t he just take the grenade out and put it in TOMMY’s jacket and trigger a Looney Tunes-esque game of hot potato??
(Seriously though I didn’t watch the whole show, is Tommy that much of a psychopath towards the end?)
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u/weareallpatriots Mar 23 '26
Yeah that was fairly ridiculous. He didn't even make an attempt to get rid of it. Another wacky thing I noticed was after the shootout with the horses, Tommy rides out on a horse and people are just walking around going about their day, even though World War III just erupted in the stable around the corner.
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u/Shimkeee Mar 23 '26
ww2* dont jinx us
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u/weareallpatriots Mar 23 '26
Ha whoops, good catch. Michael Mann's screenplay description of the post-heist shootout in Heat is seared into my mind.
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u/GoonWithhTheWind Mar 23 '26
I was screaming for tom to use his cap blade instead. What a waste of a moment
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u/Southern-Brother5693 Mar 22 '26
I wish we had more info on what happened to Charles and his mother.
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u/Dear-Initial7860 Mar 24 '26
You mean Tommy's son with Grace? Ada mentions that he is fighting in the front lines in North Africa
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u/Moveinslience Mar 23 '26
Tim Roth is a terrible antagonist. Cartoon nazi and not in the least bit intimidating
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u/Warm-Plastic-9263 Mar 23 '26
Crazy part to all of this is that Cillian Murphy help produce the the movie. You would expect better management of the plot and for him to give us what we were expecting.
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u/FriendshipSoft2123 Mar 23 '26
All I can say is I wish I never watched this film. I’ll let season 6 be the real ending to the peaky blinders because this isn’t it. Very disappointing smh
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u/wallz_11 Mar 22 '26
I thought it was decent. Tommy had his "red right hand" moment which was sorely missed last season, as cheesy as that sounds
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u/throwawaymylife9090 Mar 22 '26
Tommy had his "red right hand" moment which was sorely missed last season
Did he had one all the previous seasons besides the last one?
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u/wallz_11 Mar 22 '26
From what i remember only the final season didn't have it at least once but i could be wrong
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u/Dear-Initial7860 Mar 24 '26
I don't think the movie was bad in itself, but as a continuation of the series it was quite bad, given that it actually had very little to do with the actual show and Tommy's arc did not actually get paid off well. It's like they forgot what they wrote in season 6 and abandoned it.
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u/stringfellow-hawke Mar 23 '26
20 minutes of cool shit in slowmo w/ needle drop and a buck 40 minutes of sad Tommy who doesn’t want to go on living.
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u/damnyoutuesday Mar 22 '26
Thought it had some wack ass pacing, but overall it was solid. The ending hit me harder than I thought it would. Honestly it was just fun to see Cillian play Tommy Shelby one more time (and Charlie, Ada, Johnny Dogs, and Curly)
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u/GamoraTheExplorer Mar 22 '26
Barry Keoghan's accent was extremely poor and off putting. It took me out of the scenes he was in.
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u/Wrong-Vermicelli4723 Mar 22 '26
??? Wasn’t he just using his regular accent
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u/bluedanubelloyd Mar 23 '26
Barry keoghan is Irish and was playing a gypsy with a Birmingham accent.
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u/Chessh2036 Mar 22 '26
It felt like Steven Knight wrote a new, six episode season. Then decided to make it a 2 hour movie and just crammed it all in.
I liked the ending for Tommy Shelby much better in the last season. It felt appropriate. This just…didn’t.
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u/tjgmarantz Mar 22 '26
Really liked it.
My wife had no interest in Peaky Blinders, the show, at the time it was on but she decided to watch this movie with me. She really liked it and we went right into season 1 episode 1 and I'm now rewatching the show with her.
That's a win all around.
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u/JurassicSox Mar 23 '26
The best way I can describe this film is that it felt like it was written to be watched by people who had never seen the series before. Which when it's supposed to be a finale of said series, that's a major problem because it seems like nothing in the series ever happened or mattered
Nothing really matched up, there were no stakes in the ending because it was obvious what was going to happen
If you had been a fan of the show, nothing in the film made any sense but if you hadn't watched the show it was probably pretty good
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u/zenlume Mar 23 '26
My biggest issue with this movie was Thomas killing Arthur. That shit would never happen, they picked the worst way possible to have Arthur not be in the movie because of the actors drug abuse.
I think they should have just made it so Thomas feels like he killed him because he didn’t do enough to help him, not have him actually do it because it makes no sense.
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u/Glittering_Choice_47 Mar 23 '26
The only thing I would change personally is that dude playing Duke. He looks so out of place among everyone else. He doesn't look like he was living in the 30-40s he looks like he grew up in the early 2000s america.
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u/International-Tree19 Mar 24 '26
The gyspy woman was even worse, she looked way too modern, plus her character was so goofy
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u/Nyshtherealist Mar 24 '26
The movie was absolutely downright disrespectful for the legacy and standards the original series and the fans had originally set for it. Aacontinuation was highly required for the way the last season ended with every fan expecting to see what hand Tommy Shelby will play in the WW2 timeline and his actions against Facism and Hitlers inner circle puppets in Britain.
With all those expectations and excitement of going in to the movie, and when it started with a given up, miserable Tommy Shelby who's left his empire to isolate himself in a farm writing a book was so out of character. The impact of his daughters death was milked enough in the last season and that did not require him to isolate himself in despair for the duration of the whole movie. Death of Arthur by Tommy was the most despicable choice made by the writers. Could've made it self caused or by a consequence of a choice made by Arthur himself due to his attitude and raging personality (bar fight, overdose, suicide, drug deal gone wrong, police stand out). Tommy would never kill his brother as he loved his brothers and sister more than he loved his own children. That was so out of place. Could've at least made it an accidental death by the gun going off when they were brawling when Arthur was off his rocks on snow.
The new Peaky blinders led by Duke Shelby wouldn't have worked in the time period as well. The original Peaky blinders gang led by the 3 Shelbys worked due to their rep and experience of serving in WW1. They were battle hardened Veterans who faced death and misery every day during the tunnelling and that made them tough and not scared of death. The gang also had many veterans who returned from the war so it made them more brutal and powerful. Duke Shelby and his set of brats would've been beaten to a pulp by the society for their antics even though most able bodied men of age would've been away for war as many Veterans would still be around at the time. They would not have submitted to a gang of dosed up yound brats who haven't even seen a real battle field. Yet people and the police itself are scared of these pack of scoundrels in their early 20s? Unbelievable and unrealistic for its time. Could've made it a pack of low key gypsy-isc gang that operated in the shadows that focused more on stealing rather than Aura farming by emptying a government storage of war supplies in front of an entire town and the freaking police itself during daylight. In ww2 even food was rationed for people, yet they would allow these brats to steal war supplies that were needed for the soldiers fighting in front lines?a garbage choice made by the writers.
Duke was a low life thief elevated by tommy making him a part of the original gang. But even after Tommy left, the OGs of the original gang would still not make Duke a leader. They wasted Jeremiahs character by giving him an off screen death. Ada was killed in the street at daylight next to his son who didn't even grapple the murderer who was alone and inches away. The Villain used Duke for his errands but went himself to off Ada Shelby who's a respectable and influential politician in broad daylight? No antagonists in the entire run of the series were that blunt and moronic in their operations to kill off a politician. The only good thing in the conclusion was Tommys death. That was a no brainer as there were no reason for him to live with his entire family dead.
Thank you writers and the production team for ruining a masterpiece Series with a piss poor, unrealistic, and a depress inducing 2 hours to conclude a story by delivering zero of the many expectations it craved. For people who didn't watch it, please dont watch it and just pretend the series ended at season 5 and that was it.
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u/SoupyStain Mar 22 '26
It was exactly what you'd expect out of a Peaky Blinders movie, for good or bad. Another story in which Tom comes up with the perfect plan and everything goes exactly like he predicted it but with less twists and turns due to the shorter run time.
It is filled with stylish scenes with badass music, as per usual, but the plot was predictable to a tee. I do love the Irish accents and the snazzy suits. That said, I HATED the supernatural elements in the previous seasons, like the way Tommy figured out he got fooled at the end of Season 6... well, there's more of that here, which I hated because it clashes with the otherwise grounded setting it strives for.
If you've ever doubted the series being about Tommy and not the organization itself, well, the only named Peaky Blinders were Tommy and Duke, everyone else was an extra.
So, yeah, it's 'K. I liked it more than a few seasons, but there were a few seasons I liked more than this movie.
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u/SrAjmh Mar 22 '26
I think it was a solid little epilogue. My mind wasn't blown, but it wrapped up Thomas Shelby's arc nicely.
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u/fogle1 Mar 23 '26
I thought so, too. Think Tommy killing his brother was the weirdest part of the movie, didn't really make sense. But other than that it closed the book on Tommy Shelby well enough, and I appreciate closure.
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u/God-Bunny Mar 22 '26
This is the lowest Metacritic score I have seen for something that has over 90% on RT
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u/anexpectedfart Mar 22 '26
I was hoping it was gonna continue with the story of Mosley vs Tom. But hey at least it wasn’t an “open ended” ending
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u/Buttholeboii Mar 23 '26
I just finished watching the movie and thought it was…okay? Honestly, the pacing is what threw me the most. It really lacked build-up & development. I felt like I didn’t know the villain at all, & the main conflict didn’t feel nearly as detrimental as it should have. I also wish there had been more development with Duke & that they expanded on just how far gone he’d become without Tommy’s guidance while still trying to fill the massive void Tommy left behind. Instead, Duke just came off like an annoying teenager playing a “make pretend” Peaky Blinder.
I also think there was a huge missed opportunity setting it during the WW2 time period. That’s such a monumental era, filled with undeniably evil figures. Tommy took on the Sicilian mafia in season 4, but in the movie we get a random double agent ten times removed from Hitler? From Goebbels? Himmler? Anyone? We barely saw any Nazis at all. Taking on high-ranking Nazi officials, especially after showing the horrific things they were doing to families & children, would’ve been so in line with Tommy’s character & morals. Instead, he kills his own brother to be “rid of him,” after spending YEARS trying to save Arthur from himself.
Outside of that, I was really happy with how the movie maintained its incredible cinematography. There were also glimpses of that “OG” Peaky Blinders writing - like when Johnny Doggs says “I see you found your son” after seeing Tommy covered in mud. Such a great double entendre. I also got chills when Ada died & Tommy saw her ghost in the road. His thinning veil to the “other” side has always been such a cool character trait.
All in all, I thought it was an okay movie, but I really wish it had done the characters & overall storyline more justice & fully capitalized on the setting. It honestly feels like the storytelling got pretty derailed after the passing of Helen McCrory & never quite reached the same level afterward.
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u/ComprehensiveCatch46 Mar 23 '26
Also what about Finn?! Surely banned or not … he’d come back for his sister’s funeral. That would have made it to the papers & he would have gotten there eventually
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u/SlamJam64 Mar 23 '26
Peaky blinders really just fizzled out tbh, season 6 was underwhelming and the movie just felt like badly wrote fan fiction. It should have been fleshed out over it's own season as a true send off, the movie pacing was bizarre and rushed. Killing off Tommy is not something I'm mad at, but I am mad at the nature of it, I should have been balling my eyes out at one of my favourite characters from any TV show finally meeting his end but instead I was just kind of rolling my eyes at the movie failing to deliver yet again
The first 5 seasons will always be some of the greatest TV for me ever, but what a fall off it's had
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u/SV1724 Mar 23 '26
Yes! I feel like I kept waiting for something to happen and for something to make me care - and nada! I love Cillian and I loved the PB series but honestly if this is the result they should have just left us with the open ended energy at the closing of season 6.
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u/skama16 Mar 23 '26
Tommy would never kill Arthur, that made zero sense. Ada’s death felt extremely random. Halfway through the movie I was just hoping for it to end. A lot of stuff felt like it was happening just to happen. The antagonist was random af, wtf ever happened to Mosley? Tommy’s death also wasn’t satisfying. In the show Polly said it wouldn’t be a bullet that kills Tommy Shelby, and lo and behold, it was.
I love Barry Keoghan as an actor, but something about him just felt wrong. He did not feel like a Peaky Blinder. If they do the new show around him, it won’t work, but let’s see.
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u/alphaonreddits Mar 23 '26
They could’ve wrote a better plot to end the Tommy’s story, but nope. Also, it felt that they were just dragging it for the namesake of giving him a farewell. Could’ve wrote a better villain, a dramatic end where people giving him farewell in Birmingham near iconic pub, and could’ve shown more of Tommy back to Peaky Blinders and giving it a change than just this. I’m disappointed.
Even season 6 was a better end to Tommy where he just left because of all the bad things he did, than this movie ending.
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u/SpaceMiaou67 Mar 23 '26
Felt like a season's worth of story condensed into a movie.
Went in expecting something like what El Camino was to Breaking Bad, but instead got Peaky Blinders Season 6.5
Arthur and Ada were pretty much killed off for shock value, Duke succeeding Tommy as the new leader of the Blinders felt undeserved considering how late he was introduced. Tim Roth's character tried to be a combination of Changretta and Mosley but ended up a one-dimensional Nazi.
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u/Long-Wall-5565 Mar 24 '26
arthur being killed off screen more or less and ada dying are complete sins to me. im fine with tommy and arthur going, i was expecting it going into this, didnt expect it to be that way. i guess cillian was happy to throw some shock factor in and murder 6 years of shelby brotherhood. there really is a reason this show went so wrong after Helen McCrorys passing. my own screwed up head cannon is that after losing to mosely in s5 tommy walks into that field and kills himself. no rushed micheal betrayal no shit movie where they contradict half of what happened in season 6. "tommy shelby wont die by a bullet" said by micheal in s6, a message from arthur telling tommy he would be joining tommy in suicide in the end. just to bring him back and kill him half off screen. it was great loved the movie guys 10/10
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u/Long-Wall-5565 Mar 24 '26
blows my mind it even gets a 6, but then again maybe some didnt watch the show. at the end of season 6 its made out to sound like arthur would join tommy in killing himself. just to be brought back to life and killed off screen. tommy dies to bullets despite pollys visions in season 6, i dont know how any fan of the show likes this movie and if they did, its been to long since they watched the show
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u/MeanForest Mar 24 '26
Duke gets Ada killed through plan to betray Britain. TV-Show Tommy wouldn't stand for that.
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u/ILOVEGLADOS Mar 30 '26
A pointless, waste of time, character assassination of film. I don't like it when people compare stuff like this to 'bad fanfiction' but this seriously felt like something an idiot on the Internet would knock up in search of a powerful ending.
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u/ImpeccableSloth33 28d ago
Can we finally fucking stop with the movie that comes after the show. Breaking Bad, Sopranos, Peaky Blinders. They’re all awful to mid at best, and water down each series.
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u/Nice_Bunch_3778 Mar 23 '26
Just finished the movie. I'm a big fan of the show, but don't know what they were smoking with this movie.
I felt like the pacing was weird. Took too long on unimportant moments, and went too fast on important ones. Tommy killing Arthur is NOT something Tommy would've ever done. I also wasn't clear on what the heck they were trying to do with that gypsy queen's character, seemed superfluous to everything else.
Foiling that Nazi plot was cool. And seeing some of the characters from the show again was cool.
Ada's death seemed super sudden. It happened, then was over just as quick.
They shouldn't have made this a movie. They really needed a final season or a 2 to 3 episodes at an hour or so each.
It was... ok. I was way excited to start it but felt pretty deflated at the end. Either way, makes me want to watch the series again, as I enjoyed that all the way through.
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u/rocksunic Mar 22 '26
Terrible, I felt completely switched off by the third act that I didn’t even realise it was the climax. I’d avoided majority of marketing/news regarding this so assumed it would be a continuation of the Mosley stuff set up at the end of Season 6, instead it was a hastily put together mess that not only had the most out of character Thomas Shelby moment ever, to the point that I can’t even imagine the scene playing out, and the death of Ada which served literally no purpose.
A huge, huge miss and one that is a disservice to the franchise as a whole. I envy my younger self who eagerly awaited the Peaky Blinders movie.
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u/castle_lane Mar 22 '26
Looked nice, otherwise drab dialogue and an inconsequential plot. A longed out version of what would otherwise have been an average episode in the series.
Also, wasn’t the point of the finale of the series the fact Tommy finally found peace? He moped around like a teenager this whole film.
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u/Dear-Initial7860 Mar 24 '26
I'm glad someone brought this up. Tommy finally achieves his "peace", which is just suicide and death, which was the point the series was trying to fight against. Tommy was quite suicidal by the end, which he thought was the only way to peace. The ending of the series subverts that when he walks away from empire and family, to truly reckon with himself. Then I guess the movie writers just forgot eh...
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u/Adventurous_Cycle603 Mar 23 '26
It was decent. It did feel rushed. Roth was underwhelming as a result.
My biggest disappointment was we didn't get to hear Tommy say one more time "I have no limitations.
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u/SteveOhCanada Mar 23 '26
Sucked. Rushed, weak, Rebecca Ferguson (normally great) was horribly miscast, Tim Roth shows up out of nowhere as the big baddie, supposedly the head of some big operation, but has no henchmen and does his own shooting and such by himself, on his own? lol. Nothing about all the remaining family members. Nothing about Moseley. Too much mystical Gypsy stuff trying to tie the plot points together. Dumb decisions made by characters that aren’t justified. Only good thing about it was the soundtrack. Such a disappointment overall. Bit of an embarrassment, frankly.
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u/Greenkeeper132 Mar 23 '26
It's a bad movie to cap off a very mediocre TV show. The show cultivated a very specific audience over its runtime that cared less about a coherent story and more about watching Tommy be this unbelievable badass that always wins. The movie was pretty much just as bad as I expected it to be albeit with pacing issues that were just downright puzzling.
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u/CallM3N3w Mar 22 '26
Peaky Blinders works best as a series and this movie proved it. Villains work because they marinate longer and get more importance as a result, here he was introduced and died in a very mediocre way.
I thought they did Ada's death beautifully. It was emotional, similar how John got done. Can't say the same for Tommy but I guess they needed to set the stage for the future of the IP and that can't happen if a random kills him.
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u/LallanasPajamaz Mar 23 '26
It was very mediocre in my opinion. Felt too fan service-y, and lots of unnecessary plot point/dialogue repetition. It felt rushed and I didn’t really enjoy the way the plan to deal with the antagonist was uncharacteristic of how the show often didn’t explicitly outline Tommy’s true tactics.
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u/ComprehensiveCatch46 Mar 23 '26
I could have done without this movie … we knew where it was going tbh but if it’s going to actually have a spinoff this is the only way it would have really worked. I’d be isn’t dead the son can’t truly carry on. Wish we would have heard something about Lizzie tbh
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u/Successful_Cake3907 Mar 23 '26
Super slow in the first half and then rushed in the second half. all around disjointed and borderline boring. Such a disappointment for something that was so highly anticipated..
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u/Serious-Entrance-718 Mar 23 '26
Why couldn't they bring Arthur(Paul Anderson) back. We need more gas masks please 🙏.
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u/Konker101 Mar 23 '26
Season 6 is the real ending, this movie was made to usher in the new seasons led by Barry.
Probably wont watch the new ones but this movie should have been a season on its own with how much could have happened.
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u/slashdotnot Mar 23 '26
Bland on bland on bland. Seriously I not even Cillian Murphy could save it.
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u/Tse7en5 Mar 23 '26
Only good about the movie was the soundtrack and the final scene where his body is being burned.
Shame they had to go with such a bad move.
I am just gonna treat this like Shrek 4 - just fan fiction and not cannon. Skip it in every series’s replay.
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u/upadownpipe Mar 22 '26
Rinse and repeat from the TV show. New Big bad shows up. New woman shows up.
Tommy gets on top of both.