The film revolves around FBI striker Eric O'Neill who is locked in a dangerous game with his boss, Robert Hansen. Erik begins his murderous experience in front of this person, a customer who has been tried for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
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The pulse of spy films so rarely comes from such meticulously detailed verbal and body-language suspense. Here, every conversation is a possible trap, inquiries feel like interrogations, responses and reactions could be lethal tells.
Ray's impression of the real Hanssen remains frighteningly opaque.
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February 17, 2007
Ray's careful emphasis on authenticity over thrills and psychology over action is impeded by this narrative's narrow window: there's so much we can't know about what Hanssen did and why.
Breach, a slow-burn thriller told from the inside out instead of the outside in, is not a great film. But it could have been. It will have to settle for being simply a very good film.
An espionage thriller which focuses on strong character development, performances and setting, Breach could have been a contender had it not been for the ill informed depictions of the characters Catholic faith.
