Act, fiction and fantasy are mixed in slapdash style in Phantom. Some parts of the explosive drama that co-writer and director Kabir Khan creates are gripping, but the rest of the action is either poorly paced or painfully perfunctory.
Imagine a sequence in which two Indian secret agents are in the Syrian army’s line of fire in rebel-controlled Qudssaya, with a Pakistani operative tracking them.
The duo fights back, but Phantom is unable even in this perilous situation in a conflict zone to generate the expected edge-of-the-seat tension. It feels like just another routine action scene.