This film follows the career of a fictitious CIA officer from WWII to the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Rating: 9/10 (20 January 2007)

I happened to have lived in Washington, DC at the time of the Aldrich Ames and Robert Hansen affairs, and I thought this was a really good movie that was more realistic than most films about the CIA, although it had its flaws, such as implausible plot contrivances.
I think that many detractors of this movie who have been brought up on a diet of James Bond flicks don't appreciate that this film is more about what life in spy organizations such as the CIA is really like. Real-life spies are not dashing bachelors who hang out at casinos and resorts on unlimited expense accounts and blast their way out of dangerous situations, but most are guys who are trying to put up the facade of humble government workers with mundane jobs who must somehow try to balance secrecy with a normal family life.