Like it or not, there were indeed various conspiracies, human rights abuses, murky undercover dealings and a Dirty War being waged by the British Army in the north of Ireland over 30-odd years. Ken Loach's film ( produced and released 21 years after the troops went in) certainly highlights these occurances and is perhaps the more chilling once you realise that it was closely related to and has many aspects of certain ACTUAL EVENTS that happened in this part of the "United Kingdom".

A well-acted, trite and totally bogus tale of those big, bad wolves, the British Army. It's a fair enough prospect on paper, but it's all been done before. Cox, as ever, is superb, but wasted, and it makes you wonder what the whole point is now of this second rate racism, outside of Boston or Dublin. Tired, and one for die-hard Anglophobes.