A brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in the Agency.A brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in the Agency.A brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in the Agency.
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Kenneth Mitchell
- Alan
- (as Ken Mitchell)
Jenny Cooper
- Blonde with Cell Phone
- (as Jennifer Levine)
Veronica Hurnick
- Polygraph Interrogator
- (as Veronika Hurnik)
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'The Recruit' is good enough for a nice evening but that doesn't mean the movie is very good. It is about James Clayton (Colin Farrell) who is recruited by CIA spy Walter Burke (Al Pacino). On a place called The Farm he and others including the beautiful Layla (Bridget Moynahan) are trained to become CIA agents. They learn to kill and all the stuff you see James Bond and such do in other movies.
It is all very entertaining but not very believable. Entertaining because of Al Pacino who almost always is fun to watch and because of Colin Farrell. I liked him in 'Tigerland' and since then he has only done good. The real star in 'Minority Report', the best thing in 'Daredevil' and a great performance in 'Phone Booth', and now a good reason to watch 'The Recruit'.
'The Recruit' is entertaining, but one plot twist after another, most of them predictable; it is just a little too much.
It is all very entertaining but not very believable. Entertaining because of Al Pacino who almost always is fun to watch and because of Colin Farrell. I liked him in 'Tigerland' and since then he has only done good. The real star in 'Minority Report', the best thing in 'Daredevil' and a great performance in 'Phone Booth', and now a good reason to watch 'The Recruit'.
'The Recruit' is entertaining, but one plot twist after another, most of them predictable; it is just a little too much.
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- TriviaThe pictures that are shown during the opening credits, of James and his father, are actual childhood photos ofColin Farrell and his father.
- GoofsDuring the training, when Layla is assembling her Steyr Augassault rifle, the ammo magazine disappears and appears again while she talks to Clayton.
- Quotes
Walter Burke: There's this parish priest, goes up to the Pope, drops down on his knees, starts weeping... asking forgiveness. "Holy father, holy father, what am I to do? What am I to do? I do not believe in God anymore. What am i to do?" And you know what the pope said... "Fake it."
- Crazy creditsOn the DVD audio commentary, Colin Farrell thanks the caterers for "Montezuma's Revenge in the fourth week" as their particular credit goes by.
- Alternate versionsThe film's DVD release presented the film open-matte, at an aspect ratio of 1.78:1, meaning there was more picture information visible in the top and bottom of the frame than in normal theaters and on Blu-ray.
- ConnectionsFeatured inThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #18.63 (2010)
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Written byShaun Verreault,Earl Pereira,Safwan Javed andCraig Northey
Performed byWide Mouth Mason
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Box office
- Budget
- $46,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $52,802,140
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $16,302,063
- Feb 2, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $101,191,884
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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