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Overview
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Roger Towne (written by) and
Kurt Wimmer (written by) ...
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Release Date:
31 January 2003 (USA) more
Tagline:
Trust. Betrayal. Deception. In the C.I.A. nothing is what it seems.
Plot:
A brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in the Agency. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
2 nominations more
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Everything is a Test!!! That's a Good and Bad Thing. more (262 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Al Pacino | ... | Walter Burke |
 | Colin Farrell | ... | James Douglas Clayton |
 | Bridget Moynahan | ... | Layla Moore |
 | Gabriel Macht | ... | Zack |
 | Kenneth Mitchell | ... | Alan (as Ken Mitchell) |
 | Mike Realba | ... | Ronnie Gibson |
 | Ron Lea | ... | Bill Rudolph, Dell Rep |
| Karl Pruner | ... | Dennis Slayne |
 | Jeanie Calleja | ... | Co-Ed #1 |
 | Jenny Levine | ... | Blonde with Cell Phone (as Jennifer Levine) |
 | Angelo Tsarouchas | ... | Cab Driver |
| Veronica Hurnick | ... | Polygraph Interrogator (as Veronika Hurnik) |
 | Eugene Lipinski | ... | Husky Man |
| Mark Ellis | ... | Test Instructor |
| Richard Fitzpatrick | ... | Rob Stevens |
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Also Known As:
The Farm (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence, sexuality and language.
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115 min
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1.78 : 1 more
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DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Certification:
Switzerland:14 (canton of Zurich) | Malaysia:U | Iceland:14 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:14 | Finland:K-15 | Germany:12 (w) | Hong Kong:IIA | Ireland:15 | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:M | Norway:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:15 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12A (original rating) | UK:12 (video rating) | USA:PG-13 | Canada:A
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The character of the CIA Career Trainee Lisa Sahadi (played by Elisa Moolecherry) was revealed in a deleted scene to actually have been a CIA agent who is part of the new group and is gathering intelligence on the group. more
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Continuity: During the title sequence of the movie a website is shown where Clayton posts information about his missing father. If you look at the address bar of Opera's browser, it says "file:///vault1/projects/recruit/design/images/sourceimages/fakesite/htmled_site/page_02.html" - clearly a local reference to the "fake" website. more
Quotes:
James Clayton:
The Iwo Jima Memorial... this where you tell me about duty and sacrafice?
Walter Burke:
No. This is where I have my breakfast burrito.
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'The Recruit,' is an MIT whiz kid James Clayton (Colin Farrel). His recruiter is CIA guy Walter Burke (Al Pacino). He is the head guy at the CIA training centre, 'the farm,' which Clayton and fellow trainee/love interest Layla Moore (Bridget Moynahan) go through.
The movie is good enough to watch but is not entirely riveting. You see, we are told 'everything is a test!!!' and this lurks behind every plot turn that Clayton goes through. Are his problems for real? Or is it just another training test by Burke? If this sounds like tense stuff, it is and it isn't. Sometimes it will hook you in but other times it is just annoying - the feeling that he's not in any real danger but its all just a drill. Interest goes up and down until after the 'farm' training stuff. At this point, the story's focus gets much sharper and things become more consistently interesting, with a few cool twists. This is quite a fair way into the movie, though.
I love Pacino, and was quite interested in whether Farrell could match him after the promise he showed in 'Minority Report.' Well he does. In fact, everyone holds their own and the combined chemistry boosts the film. Pacino is steady throughout and doesn't do his unrestrained thing until the end (its still worth the wait!). Also, Moynahan is thankfully given more to do than just be the obligatory chick/eye-candy.
Overall, decent enough to give a whirl. It's better than most of the other spy / thriller stuff out there.