Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review — a bleak, brutal finale

It has been four years since Cillian Murphy last played Tommy Shelby and the film jumps to 1940, in the middle of World War II. Tommy returns grey and reclusive, living in a haunted mansion with Johnny Dogs and spending his days writing in an attempt to intellectualize his PTSD.

He is tormented by flashbacks from Flanders, sees visions of his dead daughter Ruby, and speaks to his family’s graves while Ada tries to maintain the family name as a local MP. Barry Keoghan’s Duke is introduced with careful tease: he has the look of a Shelby but none of the clan’s values, and his longing for a father figure leaves him vulnerable.

Tim Roth’s Beckett emerges as a ruthless antagonist, scheming to flood England with forged banknotes and offering Duke a fortune for his complicity. Rebecca Ferguson’s Kaulo draws Tommy back into the fold, and a mud-soaked confrontation between father and son keeps allegiance and outcome uncertain, even as some exchanges lean toward familiar beats.

England, Flanders

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