As he and Hanssen start to bond over religion, O\'Neill starts to question his assignment - at which point, he\'s brought into the fold and told the truth about Hanssen and his spying for the USSR. When he\'s assigned to be Hanssen\'s aide at a new IT department of the FBI, and told to watch him for online sexual deviancy, he feels like he\'s being sidelined to a small internal affairs case that has no real importance. Eric O\'Neill (Ryan Phillipe) is a young FBI operative who wants to become an Agent. Written and directed by Billy Ray ( Shattered Glass), the film is not a thriller - as the trailers might have you thinking - but rather, it\'s a tense drama. It just seems that Breach spends far too much time trying to show Robert as a religious hypocrite without even suggesting that maybe his faith in religion is as much a ruse as his patriotism.Breachis the new drama based on the true story of FBI Agent Robert Hanssen, who spied for the Soviet Union, and how he was caught.
BREACH 2007 MOVIE
The last line of the movie enforces this by having Robert ask Eric, after he has been arrested, to, "Pray for me." I do not mind that Robert was a catholic. Of course, we do not know in real life if that was the case, but this movie seems eager to show him as a God worshiping Christian. In his mind he is a truly religious person. According to this movie, he does not pray or go to church as cover. The fact that Robert is shown as a sincere catholic only serves to show how far he is willing to lie. He then races the clock to extract information from it and place it back exactly where he found it before Robert returns. The best scene is when Eric hurries Robert out of the office under false pretenses so as to get to his palm pilot. Every time Eric and Robert interact you wonder what may or may not be divulged about the other. Like last year's The Departed, Breach shows just how hard living a lie can be.īreach is moderately paced, but it does serve to add to the level of tension. He lives a lie at work and must continue it at home. Although this is a spy story, the tension of Eric's personal life is just as interesting and integral to the plot. Eric cannot divulge anything to his wife. They eventually have meals together and Eric's wife gets freaked out by the whole thing. Robert claims to be very religious and solicits Eric to bring his wife to church with him and his wife. The game is who can play their parts better, and who can get the other to give something away. Robert wants to know Eric to discover if he can trust him. Eric wants to get to know Robert to find secrets. The movie plays with the two leads feeling each other out. He eventually learns that Robert has been selling secrets to the Russians for years and he is to help accumulate evidence against him.
He is, at first, told to spy on Robert because he is a sexual deviant and that his online activities will embarrass the agency. He calls someone a fagot and thinks women should not wear pants because, "We don't need anymore Hilary Clintons."Įric works for the government in surveillance and is trying to make agent, until he gets pulled from his job and goes undercover as a clerk to a veteran agent, Robert. Of course the church goer is an obnoxious jerk. I have never seen a movie where religion is mentioned so much and the main character attend church so often.
The villain, Robert, is a religious conservative. I bet liberal Hollywood could not wait to make Breach.
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