Breach

It takes a pretty confident film to be consciously boring for its first 40 minutes. Somewhere around that mark, both the audience and the FBI agent investigating one of its own get a lot more information from the higher-ups, and the film takes a deft and permanent turn for the fascinatingly complex. While lackluster dialogue and thriller cliches intermittently dog the film throughout its runtime, it is ultimately a smart and engrossing political film, aided by a tremendously ambiguous performance by Chris Cooper as the man under investigation.