Official Discussion - Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man [SPOILERS]

Okay I’m sorry but Barry’s “self made” tattoo was sending me the entire time. It was extremely 2017 of him ☠️

4 out of 10. Absolutely no point in making this movie.

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 

It was… fine. It lacked that larger than life badassery that we’ve come to know and love about Tommy Shelby. The “villain” didn’t have enough time to marinate and the overall problem to be solved didn’t really seem high stakes, probably a pacing issue. I don’t know. It was fine but it didn’t blow me away and it didn’t really land the way I was hoping the send off would be. Best acting was from the guy that played Curly, during the Ada funeral.

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.

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!

It felt like an entire season stuffed into a movie's timeline, for better and worse.

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.

Tommy typing on the boat had me CACKLING

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.

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.

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 f*** 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.

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

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.

Does anybody know why they have decided to open a new Plot for the Movie? They closed s6 with a cliffhanger.

I thought it was decent. Tommy had his "red right hand" moment which was sorely missed last season, as cheesy as that sounds

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

I wish we had more info on what happened to Charles and his mother.

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.

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.

It was like a long music video for a Fontaines DC album

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.

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,c*** ending, dissapointed 

Barry Keoghan's accent was extremely poor and off putting. It took me out of the scenes he was in.

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)

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 😭

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.

Shit was ass

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.

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?)

Tim Roth is a terrible antagonist. Cartoon nazi and not in the least bit intimidating

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.

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.

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

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

I think it was a solid little epilogue. My mind wasn't blown, but it wrapped up Thomas Shelby's arc nicely.

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.

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.

I hated it.

great soundtrack ffwd most of the movie

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Barry's accent was awful, and not enough Stephen Graham.

I want my time back, tbh. Complete dogshit.

My brain is rotted from the good boy scene xdd

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.

Waste of my time.

This is the lowest Metacritic score I have seen for something that has over 90% on RT

The Many Saints of ~~Newark~~ Birmingham  Awful.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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..

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

Why couldn't they bring Arthur(Paul Anderson) back. We need more gas masks please 🙏. 

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.

Bland on bland on bland. Seriously I not even Cillian Murphy could save it.

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.

It was better than it had a right to be. The rotten tomatoes score had me convinced my assumptions were wrong, but it just seems like fans geeking out over it at release. Wrapped up the character so people will stop asking for more. Peaky Blinders reboot with Barry Keoghan incoming.

I’ve never watched the show. Could I go into this cold and enjoy myself or am I missing too much backstory?

Spoiler alert, it’s average, just have it on in the background whilst you scroll Reddit etc.

Bro this was straight ass. Ada and Arthur got laughable send-offs. The final monologue over the burning caravan was actually good in isolation, but the film leading up to it was so stupid it just pissed me off.

Was kinda shit not gonna lie

It was a fun watch, good thing that no more Peaky Blinders will come. Expected nothing after the two middling last seasons.

Felt like Steven Knight wanted to rush through killing everyone so no one pesters him to make any more so he can focus on James Bond and other future projects. Which i think is fair enough but let someone else take over then. There were still stories to be told within the universe

Weak

Love the series fell asleep 3 times watching the film. Took 3 days to finish it...meh...

I just watched the show it was very predictable from the start that Tommy was going to die and nothing blew me away it was very rushed and scattered, too much time was focused on the build up that never happened and it just felt flat like the only parts that were good (which idk why they'd even do this) was Killed Ada. And the way they killed off Arthur and Jeremiah wasn't done very well, it wasn't even explained to us how Jeremiah was killed and/or why he wasn't directly involved with the peaky blinders (from my understanding). Arthur's death being explained just felt and sounded like a cover-up because the actor for Arthur wasn't hired or he couldn't/wouldn't come back. And mostly definitely could've been done better than Tommy killing him "because he had enough of him". Also, WHERE IS FINN. When we last saw Finn, he'd been told his best mate was a traitor, and it was implied that Finn was out to get Tommy. Where did he go? What happened? Is he dead? Did he pack up and move on. There was no given context to what happened to him. They also could've used him in this movie.

Just watched it. I had extremely low expectations, and those expectations were met. Also having to put up with an over saturation of Fontaines DC droning in the background made it an extremely uncomfortable watch.

Seeing all the negative comments about the writing doesn't inspire confidence in Steven Knight and his 007 script

Saw it in theaters opening weekend. I was disappointed. The pacing was off...i felt like it should have been a season. You get barely any time between Tommy and Duke. Wasn't crazy about the Arthur arc or the ending either. The tone of the movie was good though. And I liked the BSA note at the end.

Nothing happened in the first 45 then it went to a very rushed oceans 11.. Could've been a 6 episode mini series fleshing it out more.. the son flip flopped so much it was obvious what'll happen The only believable part of was tommys ptsd Then they just killed ada.. just because

Well, I loved Peaky Blinders, the TV show. It is one of my all-time favorites, even if I preferred the earlier seasons. I loved the movie for one reason: seeing Tommy dust off his Peaky Blinders clothes and return to Small Heath. The ride on the black horse reminiscent of the first episode was great cinema, I thought. I cried ugly tears when Tommy died, even though we all expected his death since the end of the show. Other than that, lots frustrated me. I can't see in what world Tommy would ever kill Arthur. I find it confusing that Tommy had seemingly no concern for his son fighting in World War II. How was him returning to Small Heath and reuniting with folks like Curly and Charlie not a bigger deal, considering he had retreated into isolation for some years? Overall, I think this showed me that the movie format does not work well for Peaky Blinders. Peaky Blinders, the show, was nurtured by long-winded storylines that stretched over whole seasons. Still - I am grateful to see Cillian return and bring back Tommy Shelby. Cillian his one of the finest actors of his generation and Tommy Shelby will forever be one my favorite characters.

I was devastated with casting changes and the way some of the loose ends were tied up. It was good in parts but lots of plot holes and flaws and some very obvious repetitive story lines and Tommy-isms Overall 5/6 out of 10 

Cool so any redeeming arc for Tommy we saw at the end of the tv series is demolished instantly and we're back to square 1 with a villain who got like 10 minutes of screen time. Got it. Man this was such an unnecessary film

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.

Arthur’s death contradicts the whole character of Tommy Shelby. To me the immortal man movie murdered a TV show of such a great value. They thought it would be cool to kill off Arthur like this, instead I just gave up on the movie right at that moment. Nothing was interesting after knowing that Tommy killed Arthur. Anybody who’s a true peaky blinders fan will never like this movie.

I only watched seasons 1 and 2 of the show many years ago and I enjoyed the film. I had no trouble following the plot and judging from some of the comments here I‘ve essentialy seen everything the show has to offer, so I don‘t feel that I really need to go back and watch those seasons that I missed since I stopped. Honestly don‘t know if that speaks for the film, since usually - when I really like something - I get obsessed about (re)watching everything remotely associated with the film or show in question.

They shouldn’t have made the movie. It would’ve been easier to just say the production company went bankrupt and leave it at that. It would’ve been easier to release an official statement like: “The world ended in atomic bombs during World War II and there was no more *Peaky Blinders*.” In short: the movie is trash. It’s nothing more than a guy taking revenge for his sister’s death and then killing himself. A mix of Chuck Norris and Shakespeare. Garbage.

Very week and rushed story. Too bad,  the series great. Disappointed with the movie.

Everything aside, killing Ada was the stupidest decision they could have made. Such a lovable character, her death made no sense at all - and on top of that by a random character. wtf

I do love peaky blinders tv show and actually contented about the last episode but the movie seems off and unconnected passing the torch for more evil deeds? It would be good if duke became a successful businessman or politician which the shelby family built from hardships and intelligence, instead of another violent person that has been worst than tommy. Imagine feeding a dead body to the pigs.

Turns out the Tommy Shelby and every other character in the show was just a complete waste of time. Superficially intriguing yet ultimately meaningless. 4 seasons and one movie just to see the guy force his own son to murder him; "Heavy lies the crown"... Utter garbage. Zero Legacy for trash like this.

I got so annoyed with the background music, we get it, you think it makes a scene cooler if you add a song into it but Jesus it doesn't have to be a new song each minute, let the scenes breathe.

Its just "milking The cow"

While I agree with most of the criticism here, I liked it a lot. After a long while, I haven’t had a single thought of looking at my phone or doing anything else other than watch the movie. Even though some of the plot is questionable, there’s still Cillian Murphy, great music and perfect camera and visuals.

Absolute garbage movie.

The movie for me was a complete disappointment, though I really really liked the funeral scene of Thomas and Ada. For me the funeral of Thomas was so beautiful, how he had just waited and waited for death. And now he’s finally set free of the burden of life. Though they are playing the scene for the emotional likes of me. “I nearly had fuckin everything” Really got to me, growing up with this series. This movie for me was just bits of a series and not a movie. RIP Thomas Shelby and I hope Grace welcomed you with her loving arms.

This movie sucked ass. Felt pointless

I am a huge peaky fan and actually Liked the movie.

it was a good watch to turn your brain off to

I didn't like Arthur's death, they could've at least killed him off in movie with ada. Tommy killing him was so out of character, Duke trying to kill ada was wild too, makes their banished of Finn even more ridiculous than i already thought it was. Could've brought him back as well. Since we're purposefully killing family now.. like tf.

Can’t believe we waited YEARS for this …

Im so disappointed it went out like that.

Pretty lame to kill off Arthur without so much as a cameo. There were moments I enjoyed, but my favorite parts were mostly just watching an aged Tommy Shelby chilling at his decaying estate. The whole thing felt like a rushed segue. Looked it up, they’ve confirmed two more seasons set in the 1950’s. Honestly, is it even peaky blinders without Cillian Murphy and Paul Anderson? I guess we’ll see.

Never in Tommy Shelby’s world would he have ever killed Arthur. If we look back we even remember him wanting to spare Michael until it became inevitable . We also never once saw Tommy Shelby’s character kill someone in rage and inebriation. Absolutely disrespectful to the whole series and I’m genuinely surprised that Cilian Murphy didn’t object to this script whe he first read it. Mosley being the “ last “ villain that Tommy comes in contact with that drives him to want to kill himself then in season 6 them manipulating him to suicide again… yeah and somehow not even a mention of him in the movie . Micheal’s wife , her uncle Nelson, all of that was for what if it just gets swept under the rug. One thing out of all my disappointment I will say is that , I’m glad they replaced the actor for Duke, horrible script nonetheless but that other actor was just super annoying to me. Definitely a let down of a movie after the long wait .

The basic plot is fine, but it should have been a finale season. Everything should have been fleshed out more and given the due attention to detail that this series deserves. An hour and 1/2 movie compared to 6 seasons of storytelling will not do justice, especially as an ending for the main character? With a season we could have explored more into the relationships of Tommy and Duke, we could have built up more depth with the Blackbird lady who feels like she came out of nowhere, and had more time for side characters who have been loyal friends to have proper send offs and time to shine a little (like Johnny Dogs and maybe even Finn could have been brought back, like what happened to him? he said he was coming for Duke at the end of season 6!) Anyway still a pretty good basic plot but I wish it had been a season, felt rushed for such an important moment in the franchise

So disappointed with the movie, felt like I was waiting for something to happen for 2 hours, and nothing ever did 😕

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.

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

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

Duke gets Ada killed through plan to betray Britain. TV-Show Tommy wouldn't stand for that.

The fact that Tommy killed Arthur was so unlike him and that part just killed it for me. Love me some peaky blinders and the “I almost had f****** everything” sequence might be the best scene I’ve ever watched ( TV or movie). Love the idea and at least we got an ending to the story but could’ve been so much better.

Like 3 hours of Cillian Murphy being sad. I LOVE peaky blinders. But this felt like a h******. They should have stopped after the last movie.

So this is what milking an already dry cow looks like. 

I mean... the thing that gets me is... they had to know this was bad as they were making it. Knight, BBC, Netflix, Murphy himself. How'd could they sign off on this pile of c***?

I loved the series. I got quite attached to the characters and enjoyed the costumes and the characters immensely . I hated this movie. What a letdown.

Felt like an alternate universe spin off. What was the point of the entire shows seasons arc. Where was the story going. No where.

I honestly don't understand the people who didn't appreciate the movie. It was created to give us closure or an ending at least. Even if most of it felt rushed or summarized, I still appreciate the writers and producers making ang effort to close the chapter. We have to remember, all went south after Helen McCory died. Nobody wanted that. I am just grateful I got to watch the end story of Peaky Blinders.

Well I get why the killed off Arthur kinda but the way he died just no, the lack of mentioning the extended family is a shame and why they thought that Ada had to die I don’t know, then when he goes see her he states all are dead but him who wants to be …. Fin just stop existing or is he also dead too. I know Duke is the oldest and now leading the Peaky blinders but his other son get mentioned once I believe and even at Tommy’s funeral been nice to hear something from him or at least some form of relationship between the two brothers good or bad. Again the lack of thought towards his other son who’s off fighting in the war is wild especially when Tommy knows first hand how bad it could get. He also never reflected on what happened between him and Michael from the series and it’s all very rushed …. Also how the guy gets away with blowing up a military man is wild and the fact after the fact outside doesn’t really show any evidence it happened. They probably should have given Tommy his death in the series and left it there for his story. Poor turn out too for a gypsy King