Breach (2007) - LightShed 5

Ryan Phillippe was pretty bad and the movie kinda followed his lead.

In Breach, which is based on true events, we follow Eric O'Neil (played by Phillippe) in his new assignment with the FBI.  He is put in a quasi menial position working under Robert Hanssen (played well by Chris Cooper).  Eric has to help uncover evidence of Hanssen's many misdeeds and expects to make agent if successful.

One of Hanssen's misdeeds involves some sort of work pornography crap.  When I first saw the mention of Hanssen's "sexual deviancy" on the trailer, I thought we could potentially have bad gay content there, but (and I am not at all ruining the movie for you by saying this) his sexual deviancy has nothing to do with the gays.  Hanssen is, however, shown to be a homophobe.

In one scene, Chris Cooper's character (Hanssen) talks about a lesbian from Planned Parenthood who defends gay marriage in a speech she had delivered.  Cooper's character tone is derisive.  Awful. 

Then, Hanssen has to have his picture taken for some mural with people who served for 25 years at the FBI and his photographer is obviously gay.  Our gay is trying to make him look better (by telling him to do this and that) and Hanssen gets all worked up: he won't stand a "faggot" telling him what to do.  Awful.

Chris Cooper's character is supposed to be the bad guy in the movie, and we know that from the outset.  In these circumstances I usually give the movie a lightshed score (indicating a positive light for the gays) because in such circumstances, we see that the bad guy is wrong, we see that only bad guys are homophobes, and I had that feeling watching Breach (but not so much).

I must say that my hubby, who loves spy movies, thought Breach was better than mediocre.  Below, you see a pic of Ryan with the real life Eric O'Neil:

Comments

[who cares]

Man you queers sure are a sensitive bunch aren't you....

obviously, Cooper's character was (in keeping with the real life Hanssen) a devout (to a fault) Catholic with no tolerance for homosexuality. So that is what Cooper plays in the movie. It's called realism.

Of course you fags will find a reason to get on your fucking queer soap box over just about anything, and your review makes the movie sound anti-gay simply because it realistically portrayed a homophobic character.

Here's a novel idea, why don't we bury anything that doesn't portray queers as the greatest thing since the invention of the nobby rubber butt plug.

God damn...

You know, I don't think so many people would be so anti gay if you fags weren't so... well... so GAY!!!

Stop being an oversensitive little bitch and just watch the fucking movie. You might actually find that life is more enjoyable when you don't spend it searching for a fight with anybody who doesn't care for your queer little universe. I mean, your whole beef is that people don't "accept" you for being an ass jockey right? So how about you stop jamming your faggoty little ideaology down everybody's throat and "accept" the fact that sticking your dick in another man's ass isn't for everybody.