Chris Cooper stars as FBI mole Robert Hanssen in the true story of the spy’s undoing in 2001. Ryan Phillipe holds his own as the young agent-in-training who helps catch Hanssen in the act of passing secrets to the Russians. Apparently Laura Linney thinks she’s acting in a 1930s gangster flick; I kept waiting for her to whip out a tommy gun. However, her peculiar performance is the only hiccup in this otherwise satisfying suspense flick. A-.
Breach
May 12, 2007