Peaky Blinders - Gangs of Birmingham

A war about peace. An industrial gangster movie about Birmingham hooligans with ambitions that is not afraid to take the time to build a story, intentions of the character and the environment in order to settle the accounts in an uncompromising, stylish and often sympathetic way without genre clichés. Although the first thing you will notice is cinematography and postmodern stylization (playing games with English dialects) or the setting, it´s mainly based on living characters their magnificent cast (without exception). There is a lot to be written about Peaky Blinders, we even might go into details, from the aftermaths of the Great War to how they work with contemporary political movements, but despite all possible weak points (slow pace of the opening episodes, overuse of retarding moment by some directors, namely Otto Bathurst was not able to handle it in this respect and it's him who is responsible for the three opening episodes, in other words he does the series rather a disservice) episodes cannot be denied that they are distinctive in its dirty street way, but the dirt is unfortunately washed away in the third series when turned them into "better people". Although you might find it similar with Boardwalk Empire in many ways at first, they have little in common in fact, except for the time and genre. But they definitely do not play in each other's backyard, they follow different paths and have different pace.| S1: 4/5 | S2: 4/5 | (09.07.2016)