While Chris Cooper gives a great performance in this movie based on the true story of the American FBI computer guru, Robert Hanssen, who sold secrets to the Russians for years, I found this movie (yawn) boring. It is capably directed by Billy Ray in a tight, mechanical sort of way and co-stars Ryan Phillippe who's basically there to look pretty and provide some reason for a story. It's proof spy thrillers do need a dead body or three to make things interesting. Hanssen, apparently, in real life was as flat and boring as you see him in the movie, and that, coupled with Ray's decision to film everything in varying shades of greys, doesn't make for much excitement. All that aside, Cooper does a fine job showing us the eccentricity of a supposedly 'good' guy gone bad, even though Ray never let's us understand why he did it.
My rating 5 out of 10.
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