“Tell me five things about yourself, four of them true,” senior FBI agent Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper) orders new clerk Eric O’Neill (Ryan Phillippe) on his first day on the job. It’s an exchange that establishes the world of duplicity and doublespeak in which writer-director Billy Ray’s Breach is set, as well as confirming Cooper’s character as a grade-A hard-ass. But it also tells us to be wary of what we’re told and shown. Put simply, nothing’s what it seems. For starters, O’Neill isn’t the wet-behind-the-ears novice he seems, but an undercover operative assigned to monitor his employer for alleged sexual deviancy.
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