Recruit, The (2003)
Action | Thriller

In The CIA, Nothing Is What It Seems.

Academy Award Winner Al Pacino (Scent ofia Woman) 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), one of the smartest graduates in the country, is just the person Walter Burke (Pacino) wants in the Agency. James quickly rises through the ranks and falls for Layla (Bridget Moynahan, The Sum of All Fears), one of his fellow recruits. But just when James starts to question his role and his cat-and-mouse relationship with his mentor, Burke taps him to root out a mole. As the suspense builds in a maze of gripping twists and turns, there are only two things James can count on-he can't trust anyone and nothing is as it seems. It's the ultimate CIA thriller with so many surprise plot twists, you'll want to watch it again and again.

User Comment: george.schmidt (george.schmidt@hbo.com) fairview, nj • THE RECRUIT (2003) ** Colin Farrell, Al Pacino, Bridget Moynahan, Gabriel Macht. Listless action thriller with towheaded computer whiz Farrell as the eponymous CIA enlistee who finds himself embroiled in a complicated world of mind games and manipulation courtesy of his suspicious recruiter (Pacino) while falling for his sexy fellow recruit Moynahan. Boring in its execution with little to offer to a hit-and-miss genre with Farrell in the more-or-less father issue role Tom Cruise would be pitched for. (Dir: Roger Donaldson)

Summary: Rent SPY GAMES instead

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