The Phantom Broadcast

Kari Skogland’s conventional action-thriller of the life of late-’80s Belfast IRA volunteer and Extra Department informer (‘tout’) Martin McGartland would tip off a exaggerate for superior TV viewing. But its lack of political nous and cinematic ambition makes it seem small on the effectively screen.

Viewing events in flashback from an assassination attempt on an on-the-run McGartland in 1999, Skogland races roughly the streets of Catholic West Belfast tracing the induction and corruption of the cocky young fence and tight-fisted criminal (an moving Jim Sturgess) as he’s nurtured by ageing, lonely Special Branch runner Fergus (an inappropriately effete Ben Kingsley), recruited by IRA force leader Mikey (a dreadful Tom Collins) and wooed by nearby dilate Lara (Natalie Press in starry-eyed Sissy Spacek mode).

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The title comes from a story in McGartland’s autobiography with regard to the number of innocent lives from all sides of the measure out his duplicity may bear saved. It’s an isolating, crushing irony that Skogland’s film seeks to exploit as an avenue of impartiality that in the event seems trivial or sophist. She does conspire an atmosphere of verismo – the locations, cultural accoutrements and accents seem exact enough – but their credibility is undermined by the historical conflations and a seduction by the spectacle of wildness. On the plus side is Sturgess’s sympathetic playing, a number of cogent cameos and some well-mounted, tense widescreen undertaking sequences.