Long, drawn out, and downright boring look, at the history of the CIA.

Rating: 2/10 (27 May 2011)

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Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recruitment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's narration as he closes in on the leak.
I really don't remember a whole lot about this one. Other then it had a great cast, I found nothing overly interesting. Tremendous cast, a capable director in Deniro as well as an actor, but the insight wasn't proper for me, and I had trouble staying awake doing the duration.
Bottom line. I usually remember stuff from movies, not this one. Bored me to tears
2/10