Not needing to rely on the usual overheated clichés or epic scope of the spy genre for drama, a fact-based bureaucrat’s thriller traces the most destructive case of internal espionage ever to shake Washington. And it’s more than worth getting into this “Breach.”
Today’s lean and tense — if conventionally action-free — account focuses on the secret two-month investigation leading up to the bust of notorious FBI traitor and Northern Virginia neighbor Robert Hanssen in early 2001. But it works best as a fascinating character study of an incomprehensibly contradictory personality, as played by the brilliant chameleon-like Oscar winner Chris Cooper (“Adaptation”).
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