The Immortal Man - Worst Movie Ever

Just watched it on Netflix and I’m going to pretend I never even saw this movie. it was that bad and made no sense.

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Plot and Structure
It took a full 45 minutes out of this 1 hour 50 minute movie for Thomas Shelby to finally leave his house and for anything real to happen.

The film opens in a German concentration camp, but it’s actually not about that it jumps to Birmingham, where suddenly we're following Duke (whom we know nothing about, his life or where he’s been this whole time) getting tangled up in smuggling or dealing those counterfeit notes.

The whole Nazi money plot gets dropped completely and goes absolutely nowhere. Instead, out of nowhere Ada gets killed — no real buildup, no emotional weight, just bam, she's gone — and the movie flips entirely to a revenge story about avenging her death?!.

Now it's suddenly all about Ada's murder and the family fallout, not Tommy Shelby's big final chapter.

Tommy starts off as this reclusive, opium-smoking, broke loser haunted by ghosts, living in a rundown house writing a memoir, completely cut off from power and ambition.

The guy who spent the whole series chasing control and saying he'd never go down like that? Reduced to a pathetic side character in his own movie.

The story jumps between half-baked ideas — Nazi spy stuff, Duke's gangster side hustle, then instant family tragedy — and none of it gets developed properly. I went in expecting a deep look at Tommy Shelby's end, the legend we've followed through wars and betrayals. Instead it's a confused mess that can't pick a plot and leaves Tommy looking weak and irrelevant.

Tommy Shelby

Tommy was completely out of character the whole time. He was made to look like an incompetent, weak version of himself.

This is a character who survived everything in the series, and here he just feels like a completely different person.

The great Thomas Shelby, who survived so much throughout the series, gets killed by a nobody villain with a total of 10-15 lines in the movie?!!! This villain was the guy who “finally” took Thomas Shelby out? Pathetic end for a legendary character.

Duke (Barry Keoghan)

Barry Keoghan as Duke was unwatchable and horribly cast. The actor has zero expression, emotion or presence. Just a blank stare on his face, and he’s too tiny and young to even fill the shoes of Thomas Shelby.

As an actor he doesn’t have enough grit, wit, or strength to fill the role he was supposed to play. He didn’t come close to fitting into this world.

Barry was acting more like a cocky prep school boy than someone who grew up in Peaky Blinders environment.

Watching him play Duke, I didn’t even feel scared by him at all. and if he’s going to fill Tommy’s shoes, the audience needs to feel scared. To me he came off like a joke of a character. The grown men acting around him seemed like they were working with a sub par actor - the energy was so off balanced.

The first scene where he tilted his head and blinked like a high school girl was cringe. The soft spoken voice didn’t help either.

It honestly felt like they cast an amateur with zero acting ability.

Filming and Overall Feel

The filming style felt completely off compared to the original series.

The camera work, the pacing of the script, everything just felt wrong.

Overall

Why the Ending Was So Bad

The problem with the ending isn’t just that Tommy dies. It’s how and why it happens.

This is a character who survived war, enemies, betrayal, and everything the series threw at him. Every season built him up as someone strategic, calculated, and almost impossible to take down.

And then in the movie, he gets killed by a nobody villain?!! This villain had like 10 lines in the whole movie, the REAL Thomas Shelby would have handled him easily. And this villain is the one after an entire series that is able tot ale Tommy out?? I don’t think so.

There is no tension leading up to it. No sense that this person is a real threat. No payoff. It doesn’t feel earned.

A character like Thomas Shelby should either:

• go out because of his own choices
• face a powerful, developed enemy
• or have a meaningful, emotional conclusion

Instead, it just happens. Randomly. Flat. Empty.

It makes everything he survived before feel pointless.

After everything the series built, his ending should have had weight.

Instead it feels like they just needed to end the movie and picked the easiest way to do it.

LAST

I will say I understand they tried to fit it all in into 1 hr 50 mins when probably this should have been an entire season. But it’s still disappointing.