Breach
Director: Billy Ray
Year Released: 2007
Rating: 2.0
Young FBI employee Ryan Phillippe is given the task of monitoring the shifty dealings of an elder colleague (the eternally creepy Chris Cooper) in this based-on-a-true-story incident (the real life FBI turncoat's in prison). With that 'based-on' tag, however, comes screenwriter embellishments and the following negatives: excessive religious hokum, forced links between "sexual deviance" and said religious fanaticism as well as a few hysterical wife scenes with Caroline Dhavernas forcing herself to look upset (for being from the Eastern Bloc, she sounds awfully French Canadian). Cooper's the right man to look tormented - his face looks like it's actually sunken into itself, with only his beady eyes forcing themselves outwards - and Phillippe's appropriately naive, though neither can do much with the flat TV-detective dialogue and Go America! platitudes.
