Breach

Breach is good, actually really good. Thing is, I'll probably never watch it again. I guess that's a bit of a backhanded compliment but the whole thing is so lean it doesn't really require repeat viewing.

The film is about Robert Hanssen, a high-ranking FBI agent who for years passed classified information to the Soviets. He was a brilliant and sinister guy, a devout Catholic, yet also a guy who secretly recorded homemade porn.

I was unaware of most of the details about Robert Hanssen before seeing this and the movie does a good job of presenting all the facts. I would have actually liked a little more detail about him. Chris Cooper does such an amazing job playing Hanssen that you start to miss him when he is off the screen. The performance is up there with his orchid farmer from Adaptation as the best thing he has ever done.

I also appreciated the small details throughout the movie. That Hanssen uses dial up internet (it's set in late 2000-early 2001) and the websites you briefly see look the era. There didn't seem to be any inaccuracies that would take you out of the movie.

Notes:

1. I am getting tired of these straightforward one word titles. Just during the coming attractions there were two others, Premonition and Fracture. Granted it's better than calling them something along the lines of Executive Decision or Extreme Measures.

2. I saw this at the Rave Theater at Northeast Mall. The two Rave's in town are by far the best theaters in Fort Worth but they have started a curious (annoying) habit. After the commercials play it goes to a black screen with just their name and logo visible and music begins to play, usually something from a movie. This is really aggravating and adds to the already too long pre movie entertainment. Today they only played a few seconds from something I couldn't recognize but three other times I have had to listen to the entire James Bond theme.