A movie of rare integrity, designed and staged with a plain naturalism that, in the early stages of the film, may be mistaken for a lack of imagination.
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02/16/07
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Breach (2007)
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Reviews Counted:170
Fresh:142
Rotten:28
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Powered by Chris Cooper's masterful performance, Breach is a tense and engaging portrayal of the FBI's infamous turncoat.
Theatrical Release:Feb 16, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $32,958,840
Synopsis: Chris Cooper (ADAPTATION) gives a remarkable performance as complicated and bitter FBI agent Robert Hanssen in BREACH. Hanssen is a computer specialist who, after 25 years of service, is put under... [More]
Starring: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Kathleen Quinlan, Laura Linney
Director: Billy Ray
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Reviews for Breach
a finely crafted work that combines a quiet, conversation-rich spy thriller with a pair of solid character studies by Cooper and Phillippe.
02/16/07
The thriller Breach manages to excite and unnerve despite our knowing the ending.
02/16/07
Being an FBI Agent is mostly slow, detailed, boring, monotonous, tedious work, which aptly describes watching this film.
02/15/07
a very good movie with great acting, but it needed a bit of pizzazz to make it a movie you can't miss.
02/15/07
Heavens, this is a film about two guys in suits talking for 110 minutes. How could there be such tension? Breach is something of a cinematic miracle in the way it uses silence as a deadly weapon.
02/15/07
This is one of the more engaging spy stories to come along over the past few years and genre fans should eat it up.
02/15/07
It's smart, it doesn't pander, and it keeps us intrigued from start to finish.
02/15/07
turns the espionage thriller into something that stresses the quiet moments over superfluous explosions
02/15/07
An actor who excels at what I call "quiet strength," Cooper often says more with his eyes then with his mouth
02/15/07
The picture is suspenseful where it counts, and at times, it's truly terrifying. There were moments that made my skin crawl.
02/15/07
Top CriticMuch of the movie is suspenseful and director Billy Ray deserves credit for getting such a challenging espionage tale through the Hollywood studio system with so few compromises to the current dictates of big-budget filmmaking.
02/15/07
A restrained and respectable look at what might be the single least interesting aspect of a stunning true story.
02/15/07
This is one smart thriller: it lets you draw your own conclusions, assumes you're connected enough to current events to understand the context in which it occurs...
02/15/07
Though director Ray provides a few choice moments of psychological tension, nothing in his film can hope to outpace the anxiety caused by the appearance of former Attorney General John Ashcroft in its opening scene.
02/15/07
Without Cooper's performance, Breach would have been a good, workmanlike thriller. His presence lifts it to a whole new level.
02/15/07
Breach is the strangely punchless story of a sting operation aimed at netting the biggest traitor/spy in recent U.S. history.
02/15/07
Chris Cooper is the whole, haunted show in Breach.
02/15/07
Top CriticTense, well executed psyhcological thriller.
02/15/07
Because this espionage thriller is based on true events, it's a given that the bad guy will be caught. But [director] Ray builds an intriguing maze around the how, seen through the eyes of the audience's proxy, a young FBI man sent to spy on a colleague.
02/15/07
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