As he proved with Shattered Glass and as he proves again with Breach, director Billy Ray has become the John Ford of Washington culture.
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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
Top CriticReese Witherspoon has already done what would need to be done to make Breach a better film: Kick Ryan Phillippe to the curb.
02/15/07
The film informs us that most of the information is still classified, so perhaps the filmmakers should have waited until they had more to work with.
02/15/07
A quietly fascinating and intelligent story about betrayal.
02/15/07
You begin to suspect the FBI may be the world's most boring bunch of crime busters during Breach, a movie that urgently asserts itself as a spy thriller.
02/15/07
Top CriticAfter the lumbering self-importance of The Good Shepherd, this lean, self-effacing portrait of an organizational black sheep is welcome.
02/15/07
Top CriticIf you don't see enough of personality-deficient paper-pushers and sterile office environments on your daily rounds, this film will offer just what you've been missing.
02/15/07
This unconventional thriller tells us up front who the bad guy is and what happened to him in 2001. Then we puzzle out bits of his personality while watching Eric O'Neill, the agent assigned to catch him, go through a crisis of conscience.
02/15/07
Set in a fantasy vision of the corridors of power, Billy Ray generates a hollow spy drama based on the true story of the capture of the FBI's most detrimental traitor.
02/15/07
Breach becomes a one-man show, and even though, thanks to [Chris] Cooper, it's quite a show, spy thrillers depend on the kind of give-and-take conspicuously missing here.
02/15/07
Top CriticA member of the Religious Right involved in something duplicitous sexually and politically, while shrouding themselves in a holy water-soaked American flag? I know, it seems impossible.
02/15/07
Much like Hanssen himself, Breach, which was co-written and directed by Billy Ray, remains cool to the touch, and all the more queasily fascinating for it.
02/15/07
...suspenseful and calculating. As a stimulating thriller padded with cynical mind games, Breach flourishes with its vivid dosage of prestige and paranoia.
02/15/07
A compelling piece of fictional journalism, blending real elements and storytelling with a rare finesse.
02/15/07
Expertly crafted, if slightly pedestrian, docudrama, more quietly intriguing than compellingly dramatic [but] sparked by Cooper's bravura turn.
02/15/07
...has a mole of its own, someone working against the movie right under its nose.
02/15/07
Absolutely fascinating and completely engrossing.
02/14/07
Chris Cooper is amazing as always: amusingly grumpy, increasingly creepy and, ultimately, oddly affecting.
02/14/07
An unusually smart, tense and engaging film amid the usual dreck that lands in theaters this time of year.
02/14/07
Top CriticBreach, a movie about trust and betrayals and one where you know what happens in the end, still keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time.
02/14/07
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