Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, a new Netflix-BBC coproduction in US and UK theaters now, is a big-screen outing for Cillian Murphy’s anti-hero, Tommy Shelby, a traumatized WWI veteran and brutal gangster. Over the course of six blood-soaked seasons, Murphy has written Tommy’s legend into the long, proud tradition of British gangster stories. As a longtime fan of the show, I was eager to see how it would fare in the cinema.
You needn’t have seen any of the series, which is kind of like a period Sopranos with distinctive Midlands accents and modern rock music on the soundtrack. With a minimum of exposition, the movie quickly fills you in on everything you need to know about Tommy and the Peaky Blinders gang — so named because they keep razors in their flat caps and do unspeakable things with them.
Fans of the show needn’t worry, either — the movie is written
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