Excellent fiction about the formation of the CIA

Rating: 9/10 (5 January 2007)

I thought this was a very good movie. I read a few "comments' here before seeing it and have to disagree with those that panned the movie, its direction, or its actors. Matt Damon plays an excellent role of a man that devolves from intelligent up & comer to a member of the paranoid "black ops" spy world.
Damon's character Ed Wilson is a man that is clearly not a reacher for the fruit. He loves one woman but is trapped into a marriage without love, he has a secret in his past that you can tell is always silently on his heels, and he never knows who to trust because invariably he trusts the wrong folks. These lessons occur all through the story setup of the character and return to haunt him, as evidenced by his actions later.
The storyline was easy to follow and maintained my family's interest throughout. If any detractors it would be the length; avoid the large soda at the theater because you won't want to miss the ending or the setup to the ending.