The Recruit

The Recruit
by Roger Donaldson

The Recruit
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Actor: Al Pacino, Bridget Moynahan, Colin Farrell, Gabriel Macht, Kenneth Mitchell
Director: Roger Donaldson
Brand: Touchstone / Disney
Producer: Gary Barber
Producer: Jeff Apple
Producer: Jonathan Glickman
Producer: Megan Wolpert
Writer: Kurt Wimmer
Writer: Mitch Glazer
Writer: Roger Towne
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-27
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Product features:
  • Academy Award(R)-Winner Al Pacino (Best Actor, SCENT OF A WOMAN, 1991) and Colin Farrell (MINORITY REPORT) take you deeper into the CIA than you've ever been before in this action-packed psychological thriller. James Clayton (Farrell), a diamond in the rough, is just the person Walter Burke (Pacino) wants in the Agency. James quickly rises through the ranks and falls for Layla (Bridget Moynaha

Movie Reviews of The Recruit

Movie Review: This is a VERY GOOD film.....
Summary: 5 Stars

Al Pacino is both a good actor and a versatile actor and he gives a solid performance in 'The Recruit'.

As a recruiter for 'the company', Walter Burke (Pacino) enlists James Douglas Clayton (Colin Farrell) to become a trainee at 'the farm' in Virginia where he will be instructed in all the trappings of becoming a CIA operative. James, a computer-whiz who is conducting a very personal search of his own, decides to enter to program for perhaps the wrong reasons, but proves to be a very, very good student. During his indoctrination he becomes interested on several levels in fellow-trainee, Layla Moore (Bridget Moynahan).

This suspenseful thriller encompasses a plot that takes several twists and turns, some of which an adroit movie viewer will see coming, but it really doesn't lessen the pleasure, because the viewer is totally intrigued to learn if the plot-turn will take the direction their gut hints is ahead, and also if the characters will see it coming or miss the curve.

In addition to the plot, the sneak-peeks into the various test methods and exercises, which may or may not be authentic, are interesting and thought provoking.

The CIA instructors are not just directing their warnings; 'everything is a test' and 'nothing is as it seems' to the green recruits. Veteran film-goers are being putting on alert as well.

One consistent thing about the largest majority of Pacino's films is they are enjoyable to watch and that certainly includes this one. 'The Recruit' may not be Oscar material and doesn't contain an 'earth-shattering' or life-changing message. Is also is not just a 'guy' film, although the majority of the patrons at the showing I attended were male. It offers what movies were meant to provide; pure pleasure and entertainment.

This film makes for an enjoyable visit to the theater, regardless of your gender or the time of day you attend. In the confines of the film you may want to remember to 'trust no one', but for now, TRUST ME....when I tell you this is a must-see film for Pacino films, as well as viewers who truly enjoy the thriller genre.

Summary of The Recruit

In the cia nothing is as it seems. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 06/07/2005 Starring: Al Pacino Run time: 115 minutes Rating: Pg13
"Nothing is as it seems" in The Recruit, a guessing-game thriller that employs plot twists and conflicting loyalties as its primary raison d'être. Surrounded by potential deception, a newly recruited CIA officer (Colin Farrell) must determine if his manipulative instructor (Al Pacino) is being honest when he identifies Farrell's fellow recruit and love interest (Bridget Moynihan) as an enemy "mole" assigned to steal a dangerous computer virus from CIA headquarters. While claiming to offer an insider's look at CIA training methods, this engrossing yet ultimately predictable plot is pure Hollywood fantasy; any resemblance to reality is purely coincidental, leaving the perpetually unshaven and scruffily coiffed Farrell to fend for himself in Pacino's cynical arena while tracing his familial roots in the spy game. Wearing its cleverness on its sleeve, The Recruit is an adequately elaborate puzzle of perceptions. "Everything is a test," as Farrell soon realizes, and attentive viewers will enjoy piecing it all together. --Jeff Shannon
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