Breach (2007)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film
Director: Billy Ray
Writers: Adam Mazer, William Rotko, Billy Ray
Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto
Composer: Mychael Danna
Cast: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert, Kathleen Quinlan, Caroline Dhavernas

For the most part, this political thriller, a depiction of the capture of the real life super-spy Robert Hanssen, who for more than twenty years sold government secrets to the Soviets and subsequently to the Russians, is a compelling, character-focused, well-made, and excellently acted film, but where it falls down somewhat is in the final act in which everything is tidied up just that little bit too easily. Iain Stott