The film isn't consistently bland, but it is more limp than it should be, distancing you with bland spells, and giving you plenty of time to think about that by dragging things out through fat around the edges of material that ends up joining with the aforementioned atmospheric dry spells to produce repetition. This is more of a conversational, maybe even meditative "thriller", so I wasn't really expecting or even hoping for a swift pace, but when the film really slows down with atmospheric momentum in the directorial storytelling department, it really slows down more than I feared, slipping into blandness, if not dullness that leaves you to slowly, but surely, drift away. Conventional areas in storytelling aren't too terribly formulaic, but they are undeniable as components to the predictability that is firmly established through this film's shameless overemphasis on its being a true story, for although director Billy Ray isn't crowbarring in a wink and a nudge to people who know their conspiracy stories every chance he gets, and certainly has plenty of moments where he compensates for familiarity through effective intrigue, the film doesn't really want you to forget its story's outcome, and that slows down momentum, though not as much as spells in atmosphere that are anything but all that exciting. The film has no real pretense about being genuinely unique, and that obscures its conventionalism, which takes enough damage from story areas that are, in fact, relatively refreshing, though you can rarely, ever truly shake the feeling that this storytelling is a bit too familiar, and not just because this film is based on an infamous true story, hitting distinct formula tropes that give you something of an idea of where things are going to go, even if you're not too familiar with this tale. This film, however, is fairly enjoyable, and yet, it's hardly difficult at all to miss the flaws that have worked their way into things, or, for that matter, this story's direction. Jeez, you really can't trust anyone, because Ray's debut didn't fulfill its duties of being a good film, or at least I don't think it did, because I'm among the lucky, well, many who didn't see "Color of Night". Shoot, Billy Ray Cyrus probably couldn't even elude his own daughter, so I guess this Billy Ray deserves to be respected on his own as a man behind some pretty decent movies.
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Of course, through "Shattered Glass" and this film, alone, one thing is made for certain, and that is that Billy Ray sure knows how to make a film about someone going behind big organizations' backs, which leaves me to believe that he is, in fact, tricking the film industry into thinking that he's not actually Billy Ray Cyrus. You would think that whoever Cooper really is wouldn't select a disguise that isn't getting to be so obviously a costume (The years have not been good to him is what I'm getting at), but hey, the fact of that matter is that you can never be too careful around Chris Cooper. I'm getting to where I trust Cooper so little that I doubt anything he does, and it doesn't help that he's getting to look too leathery to be real. First he's messing with Jason Bourne and now he's a spy for the communists, so I think it's safe to say that Chris Cooper is your go-to guy if you want a corrupt man of high esteem within major government agencies, or at least that's how things appear.
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