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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:31-08-2007
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
In truth, the movie leaves us scratching our heads. And yet, for most of it, I was held -- by Chris Cooper's dour portrayal of walled-off demons, by the director's fascination with a deception that, on the surface of it, doesn't add up.
What really animates Breach is the question: How much wrong are you willing and able to do in order to uncover somebody else's wrongdoing?
Breach is a tough, bare-knuckle look at the new cyber-terrorism that holds you captive from start to finish.
two men playing off each other, everything they say working on more than one level and those levels changing with every exchange, sometimes with every line of conversation is where the film is at its best and most engrossing
An exciting thriller of the mind-game variety played vigorously by an exceptionally smart ensemble without blood, bombs or bombast.
The best thing that can be said about Breach is that it isn't directed by Tony Scott.
A wonderfully taut cat-and-mouse thriller. It features a performance by Chris Cooper, as the eccentric, contradictory Hanssen, that ought to be remembered as one of the year's best come December.
It's not interested in cheap thrills or playing gotcha with the audience. (Which isn't to say parts of it aren't exhilarating.)
He was a dangerous traitor, but more important, a stiff-necked, blowhard bore.
As he proved in Shattered Glass, Ray has a talent for nailing the essence of an ecosystem.
The unexciting look and feel of the movie wouldn’t have bothered me if the filmmakers had penetrated Hanssen’s skull a little.
Just as somber as The Good Shepherd, the most recent domestic spy drama, but more tightly focused, Breach absorbingly zeroes in on how the FBI nailed the most damaging turncoat in American history.
Top CriticBreach, based on actual CIA and FBI history, meticulously scrutinizes the real world of spies to draw scary portraits of deadly, unpleasant people.
Top CriticAs a follow-up to Shattered Glass, this fact-based thriller is a logical step for Billy Ray since both films deal with trust and betrayal, except that here the scope is wider and the goal more ambitious and political.
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