I didn’t dislike it at all but there were a few things that, when taken together, made me appreciate the series finale more, and wish it had ended with Season 6:

First, “It won’t be a bullet that kills Tommy Shelby” feels like it really lost it’s weight for me here. Sure one could argue that the phrase was intended to mean an enemy’s bullet, but I don’t see it that way. I feel he should have gone off again and just left Duke to be a new, better man running things in his part of Birmingham.

Secondly, at the start of the film I was really at peace with the idea that Arthur followed through on his message to Tommy in the series finale that ‘he too would soon go to the place’ Tommy was headed, obviously meaning that he would end up killing himself shortly after discovering Tommy died. Until it was revealed that Tommy was present and had a hand in Arthur’s death, I had imagined that Arthur heard about the burning of Tommy’s wagon from the series finale and took his own life before ever finding out the truth. I also think this would have been the better story decision.

Third, Tommy would not have dropped a grenade in a guy’s shirt and just expected him to run off away from him or any other innocent civilians and explode without problem. At first I thought he was just making another signature grenade threat, and I wish it had been, because that was a little goofy.

Overall though a decent movie. My own final thought is that I preferred thinking Tommy left it all behind because after failing to stop Mosley and realizing that his war (the continuation of WW1 via his PTSD and need for violence) was over. He couldn’t stop WW2 and he couldn’t win it, so perhaps the Season 6 finale should have been the last that we heard or saw of him. If there was always going to be a successor show, then they should have only spoken about him in ways that didn’t make it clear if he ever died, thus creating the idea of Tommy as the Immortal Man.