Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review — Tommy Shelby returns

After six TV series from 2013 to 2022, Peaky Blinders has been expanded into a muscular, standalone feature drenched in mud and blood. Steven Knight’s adaptation of the real-life Birmingham gangs brings Cillian Murphy back as Tommy Shelby, the Romani-traveller family chieftain whose first world war trauma has hardened into a ruthless will to survive and rule.

The story moves to 1940. Tommy lives in a remote mansion, isolated except for his henchman Johnny Dogs (Packy Lee), haunted by the ghosts of his late brother and daughter and working on what is suggested as his definitive autobiography, though scenes of literary arrangements do not appear.

Rebecca Ferguson’s character arrives with news that Tommy’s son Erasmus (Barry Keoghan) now leads a new generation of flatcappers, raiding government armouries for guns and collaborating with a sinister Nazi fifth-columnist, Beckett (Tim Roth), to distribute counterfeit currency.

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