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Breach (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 167
Fresh: 140
Rotten:27
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Consensus: Powered by Chris Cooper's masterful performance, Breach is a tense and engaging portrayal of the FBI's infamous turncoat.
Theatrical Release: Feb 16, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $32,958,840
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 surveillance as a suspected sex... [More]
Starring: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Kathleen Quinlan, Laura Linney
Director: Billy Ray
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Reviews for Breach
Top Critic
Get ready to hold your breath - this intelligently told story is filled with tension and fascinating at every turn.
05/13/07
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05/12/07
Top Critic
Stvarni svijet se u "Pukotini", kao i u mnogo drugih slu%u010Dajeva, pokazao previ%u0161e kompliciranim za dogmatsku jednostavnost i nedostatak suptilnosti dana%u0161njeg Hollywooda.
04/10/08
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.
02/28/08
Cooper gives a great performance as a man now spending 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, serving a life sentence without the prospect of probation.
09/08/07
Enjoyable, slow-burning thriller with an intelligent script and strong performances from its two leads.
08/31/07
Breach is slow, but never ponderous, and not at all like your average spy thriller. It has less obvious thrills and more depth.
08/31/07
Breach rarely treads new ground, but the set pieces are used so sparingly and with such focus on the central characters, the movie reaches a degree of tension you might not think possible.
08/31/07
A sombre game of cat-and-mouse. What it lacks in genuine tension it amply compensates in the understated performances of the two leads.
08/31/07
Intriguing and intelligent, Breach may be too understated for its own good.
08/31/07
An interestingly told tale: melancholy, thoughtful, and very un-American.
08/31/07
Top Critic Chris Cooper, who won an Oscar for his supporting role in Adaptation, gives a brilliant poker-faced performance as Hanssen and Ryan Phillippe is also convincing as O’Neill.
08/31/07
Top Critic Despite a couple of tense set pieces, the suspense needed to ignite this film is disappointingly lacking.
08/31/07
Top Critic In the face of such a towering performance from Cooper, Phillippe keeps his end up while Laura Linney, as his handler, delivers the kind of turn we’ve come to expect from one of America’s finest movie actresses.
08/31/07
Top Critic An effective and meticulous character drama, Breach doesn't quite make the most of its story but still tells a fascinating tale, aided by Chris Cooper's magnetic central performance.
08/31/07
Slow-burning and sombre, Breach won’t be for everyone. But it’s worth catching for Cooper’s performance, while its fact-based tale of treachery will strike a chord in today’s climate of suspicion.
08/31/07
Despite a career-best turn from Chris Cooper, however, Breach is a weirdly muted affair.
08/28/07
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Intelligent, but boring.
by: SundayJam 8/15/07
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