Peaky Blinders by Steven Knight – this feature has had the premiere on Netflix a few days ago, and although I like Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan- Tim Roth was once glorious, especially in Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, but also in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, only recently I have seen him in anything worthwhile, or up to his best standard – this thriller was not satisfying, its Metascore is poor – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites, together with reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

Peaky Blinders by Steven Knight – this feature has had the premiere on Netflix a few days ago, and although I like Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan- Tim Roth was once glorious, especially in Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, but also in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern  Are Dead, only recently I have seen him in anything worthwhile, or up to his best standard – this thriller was not satisfying, its Metascore is poor – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites, together with reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists on my blog  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

6 out of 10

 

If we compare this with The Godfather https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-godfather-ii-by-mario-puzo-this.html then, let me think, there is nothing more to say is one thing, and then the other…why would we compare what is in the end just common entertainment to the crème de la crème, one of the top five?

 

Well, because both deal with ‘The Mafia’, as in organized crime, albeit in Peaky Blinders Tommy Shelby aka exceptional Cillian Murphy (in the end, a waste of talent for this rather banal film) had retired, and maybe he will react to the drama, the murders, turmoil, treason, threat of the Nazis, with their falsified banknotes

The Nazis try to destroy the economy of the only state still standing against them, Great Britain, by flooding it with false money, triggering inflation and causing panic, and eventually defeat: their villain is Beckett (Becket is the name of a fabulous film  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/becket-based-on-play-by-jean-anouilh.html - with Peter O’Toole as the vain king, and Richard Burton as Becket, archbishop and martyr

 

Beckett is played by Tim Roth, specialized for some time as a vile character on the big screen, he has no qualms about killing people, torturing, he is the quintessential psychopath – we have had a few discussions on the topic at the gym downtown, I got angry, because Ammoniac insists on the psychopath getting a dog…

As in he can be nice, and no, he cannot, if he gets the dog, or another pet, just like the Governor said, it is because he is copying others, and then look at American Psychopath https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/american-psycho-by-bret-easton-ellis-9.html wherein the antihero kills many, but when he takes his wrath upon a homeless man, he also steps on his dog, until the poor pet is crushed

 

Barry Keoghan is Duke, the son of the infamous Tommy Shelby, they are gypsies, the father is writing a book, while the son is in cahoots with Beckett, anticipating a big profit from flooding the country with the false money, this is the plan, up to the point where the negative character kills family, and that is the limit

This brings Shelby back in the game from which he had retired, he fights with his son, but then maybe they make peace later, Barry Keoghan will take at least two Oscars, if you ask me, one should be easy, because he has a lot of supporting work, though he has been outstanding in Saltburn https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/saltburn-screenplay-by-emerald-fennell.html and other movies

As for Tim Roth, we should be grateful for his fantastic contribution to two of the Top Twenty Best Ever films, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/reservoir-dogs-written-and-directed-by.html and think of ‘Regression to the mean’, as explained by Daniel Kahneman, and admit that nobody can be close to perfect for such a long time

 

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