Robert De Niro's icy drama, from Eric Roth's densely researched original screenplay, unfolds over the course of two decades and traces the history of modern-day spycraft, finding in the moral destruction of one key player a sweeping indictment of the agency's poisonous culture of lying, manipulation, self-righteousness and paranoia.
The film opens in 1961 with Edward Wilson (Matt Damon), a high-level cog in the Cold War espionage machine, helping engineer the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. Designed to destabilize Fidel Castro's government, the botched operation instead embarrassed the Kennedy administration and forced the resignation of key senior CIA managem...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
167 mins