It may take a turgid 40 minutes or so to get going but once it does kick in "Peaky Blinders; the Immortal Man" really lives up to its promise and gives Tommy Shelby the send-off he so richly deserves. Yes, this is the big screen version of Steven Knight's television series with Cillian Murphy still alive and just about kicking but now he's coping with nasty Nazis and Fifth Columnists and wondering whether or not he will ever get his son, (a superb Barry Keoghan), to see things his way.
As I said, it takes awhile to get going as Tommy mopes over the death of brother Arthur and decides to stay away and write his memoirs but circumstances drag him back into the fray as they inevitably do in movies of this kind and after a literally explosive encounter with some squaddies in the Garrison pub he's out for vengeance and a possible reconcilliation with Keoghan. It looks great and as well as Murphy and Keoghan there's Stephen Graham, Ned Dennehy and Tim Roth as the most hissable of villains, a predictably moving ending, (at least for fans) and it even leaves the way open for a revival of the series
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