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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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- 2 nominations
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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- TriviaThe pictures that are shown during the opening credits, of James and his father, are actual childhood photos of Colin Farrell and his father.
- GoofsClayton, following a suspect, jumps out of a train which is standing in the station onto the rails on the other side of the platform. A public train will only have its platform doors open, never the doors that give access to the other railway.
- 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 in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #18.63 (2010)
- SoundtracksChange
Written by Shaun Verreault, Earl Pereira, Safwan Javed and Craig Northey
Performed by Wide Mouth Mason
Courtesy of Warner Music Canada Ltd
Featured review
Everything is a Test!!! That's a Good and Bad Thing.
'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.
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.
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- May 14, 2007
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- The Farm
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- 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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