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Director Billy Ray (whose previous feature was also a true story: Shattered Glass, about the young writer who fabricated stories for The New Republic) and co-screenwriters Adam Mazer and William Rotko do an extraordinary job of maintaining the tension as the story leads to the conclusion that's been revealed in the first few frames (i.e., Hanssen's arrest in February 2001); the exquisite torture of O'Neill's having to keep Hanssen distracted while Bureau technicians search the latter's car is but one example. Moreover, notwithstanding the plot developments, the filmmakers manage to keep their focus on the personal interactions that are the film's key element: the relationships that O'Neill maintains with Hanssen, his father (a cameo by Bruce Davison), his wife (Caroline Dhavernas), and others are entirely credible. At once fascinating and horrifying, Breach is inarguably one of the best films of 2007. --Sam Graham
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Billy Ray |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 16 February, 2007 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Universal Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Color, Docudrama, English, Feature, Feature Film Drama, Feature Film-drama, Matter-of-Fact, Movie, Mystery, Mystery / Suspense, Mystery / Suspense / Thriller, Ominous, Paranoid, Political Corruption, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Spy Film, Suspense, Tense, Traitorous Spies/Double Agents |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D61032276D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 025193227621 |
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Customer Reviews of Breach (Widescreen Edition)
A Well Executed Tale about a Man Who Should Have Been, Well, Executed ... BREACH is a movie that needed to be made. It tells the story of an up-and-comer in the ranks of the intelligence community, a young husband longing to serve his country as an FBI agent, who gets the seemingly innocuous and unimportant task of digging up sexual dirt on a senior CIA employee. If only the young recruit knows .... <
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>From that setup, the viewer is taken into the hard-to-believe-yet-true story of the last days of America's greatest (or worst) traitor. To say too much would be unfair to those unfamiliar with the story. The final effect is more than chilling; though this creep has been caught, the film reveals, intentionally or not, a system in our government that rewards petty behaviors and is likely to produce more of these villains in our future. <
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>(This review has been posted by Marcus Damanda, author of the vampire book "Teeth: A Horror Fantasy.")
EXCELLENT MOVIE AND ACTORS
I CANNOT UNDERSTAND AN AMERICAN BETRAYING HIS COUNTRY AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, HOWEVER, GREED, PURE GREED COMES TO MIND. Hassen and traitors like him are totally disgusting....to bad he was not hanged..a benedict arnold he is. i enjoyed reading the many interesting reviews
The mole who wanted to be the best
I must confess to being a bit disappointed at this film. I have read several books on the Hanssen case (David Wise, David A. Vise) and I expected more on the enormity of Hanssen's treachery. Among the important items not made clear in the film are 1) The tremendous number of Russians working for US intelligence who were "blown" by Hanssen, some of whom were executed; 2) Hanssen's "blowing" of important technical penetrations, like the US tunnel under the new Soviet Embassy in D.C.; 3) The fact that Hanssen, at one time, headed an FBI/interagency group searching for a mole, who was --- Hanssen himself; and 4) The means by which the FBI realized Hanssen was the mole - the actual KGB file on Hanssen, purchased from a former KGB officer for about $7 million. Among the items receiving scant attention were 1) Hanssens' wife, Bonnie; 2) Hanssen's favorite stripper, Priscilla Sue Galey; and 3) Hanssen's obsession with Internet sex.
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>Hanssen's motive is likewise lost in the film: It appears to have been ego. Hanssen simply believed he could be the best mole ever; that he could dictate his own terms of tradecraft to the Soviets, never meeting with them, never revealing his identity, using only the dead drops he specified. The Soviets pushed, but not too hard, preferring to placate his ego, which often emerged in his letters to the KGB. It all would have worked, too, if not for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the KGB.
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>Chris Cooper, who played Hanssen, is a great actor, but (contary to the opinions of director Billy Ray and former FBI agent Eric O'Neill, who knew Hanssen) I think he was micast in this role. He doesn't look like Hanssen, and he comes off as humorless and imperious, while the real Hanssen was more gregarious and "normal." That was the evil in the dual game Hanssen played: He seemed so normal, that you'd never suspect him.
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>But perhaps I ask too much, as a devourer of true spy material. As Bill Ray said, this has to be a story which can appeal to a mass audience. As a film, it is very well done. The script is good, the staging is impressive, some of the edits are phenomenal. And any film with Dennis Haysbert and Laura Linney has to be good.