| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | THE RECRUIT (2003) |
| Director | Roger Donaldson |
| Writer | Roger Towne, Kurt Wimmer, Mitch Glazer |
| Lead Actor | Al Pacino |
| Cast | Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Bridget Moynahan, Gabriel Macht, Karl Pruner, Kenneth Mitchell, Mike Realba |
| Genre | Action, Thriller |
| Release Date | January 31, 2003 (United States) |
| Duration | 1h 55m (115 min) |
| Budget | $46 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDB Rating | 6.6/10 |
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REVIEW
James Clayton has just graduated at the top of his class at MIT. He can basically get a job wherever he wants, and he’s getting enough offers to choose from. Walter Burke, a veteran recruiter from the Central Intelligence Agency, is set on giving him one more choice. Clayton chooses the CIA (its in his blood, his father was a secret operative for them and died during a mission that is still secret) and leaves for the Farm, the CIA’s training ground.
Clayton quickly proves his superiority over the other trainees and is picked out of the group as the N.O.C. and given a special assignment. This assignment forces him to gain the trust of another Farm trainee that is a suspected mole. Clayton quickly learns that at the CIA it hard to know who to trust.
The Recruit was marvelously acted. Pacino, as always, was brilliant, and Collin Farrell proved that he was the best actor in Daredevil, no matter who has the Oscar! The whole cast was good, but Pacino and Farrell obviously stuck out as two action stars united in an intense action film. Throughout the whole movie, Pacino’s character raves about his scary ability to spot talent well, this movie shed light on Collin Farrell’s talent.
The Recruit keeps you interested and in the story for the whole hour and forty-five minute running time. The story is interesting, sophisticated, and (unless you’ve seen the theatrical trailer) as unpredictable as most of these movies are. The ending isn’t original, but its well made and doesn’t ruin the movie.
The Recruit is enjoyable, entertaining, but I wouldn’t call it a thinker ever. Some of the plot is so ridiculous it gets lost in its own pile of crap. I’m a fan of CIA thrillers, I watch The Agency, read Vince Flynn and David Baldacci’s books, and frankly find CIA stories extremely interesting. This one is very good at times, and overall a good movie, but all the i’s are dotted and the t’s crossed in this formulaic action film.
This is not an exaggeration, I promise, it took one hour of the hour and forty-five minute run time to develop the characters. The remaining forty-five minutes were spent with the actual story. Character development is extremely important, but when half the movie has passed and the story hasn’t begun to unravel yet, there’s usually a problem.
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