Breach  

This was a good idea gone bad.  The entire movie was painfully slow.  If you love to watch documentary's or slow moving drama's about true stories focusing on FBI / CIA top secret investigations gone bad then you may love this film.  

I must admit Ryan Phillippe was brilliant in this role.  I couldn't stop focusing on the weird lump on his forehead but he was great.  He really sucked you in as the audience,  so that we were emotionally invested in his secret double life.  He played Eric O'Neil hired by the FBI to spy on the biggest controversy in the history of our country.  At times we were worried he would be found out, but He was incredible.  He thought fast on his feet and left you surprised that he skimmed his way through another day, and another moment of lies.  Each one digging himself deeper and deeper into this hole that he had to keep track of each one or he would essentially fall through, and fall hard - to the point where he would loose his life. 

I would wait for the DVD, so that you can multi-task while watching.  Again this movie painful, but in the end it was good.  In fact it was great to watch if you are studying FBI or CIA cases throughout history.   Yet it never becomes interesting and never even enters the 'Spy Thriller" category in which I desperately was  hoping would happen.  It barely leaves documentary status, and firmly plants its location in the drama section, and the only reason it did that is because its great actors like Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, and Chris Cooper.