We went on a bit of a dry spell with movies for a while, but we've seen two in the last couple of weeks that we liked. The first was Breach, which was about a spy named Robert Hanssen. He was an FBI agent who spied for the Soviets/Russians from 1979 until he was caught in 2001, and his betrayals were called "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in US history" by the Department of Justice. The movie is not about the spying, but rather about a young, inexperienced agent who was tapped to help catch the spy. It's a story about character development, both of the young agent and of Hanssen. It was fascinating, although not at all the spy-centred suspense story I had anticipated.
Last night we saw Unknown, a suspense movie about five men who wake up trapped in an industrial facility, with no memory of who they are nor why they are there. Are they friends? Enemies? It quickly becomes obvious that they are in the middle of a crime, but they don't know what is going on, nor who is committing it. It's a fun movie -- not a thinker like Breach, but engaging and original.
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