The Recruit | | Cast : | Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Bridget Moynahan | | Director : | Roger Donaldson | | Studio : | Buena Vista Home Vid | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound | | Released Date : | January 31, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | January 25, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | March 17, 2005 | | Summary | A pleasant (if gory) surprise | Content
 | Saw this the other night on TV and didn't think I would like it. I was like, "ugh, action movie with blood and killing," but I was too lazy to get up and go sit in the kitchen to read, so I watched it and was pleasantly surprised. The plot was interesting (if somewhat predictable), the acting and casting was superb, and the steamy scenes were awesome. Colin Farrell was very good, and his leading lady, Bridget Moynahan, who I'd never seen in anything else before, was excellent. I predict big things for her. Overall, very entertaining. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 06, 2005 | | Summary | fantastic | Content
| al pacino is really great:his voice,his manner...everything.
and colin farrell is also fine.. i love the part when he's captured by Russians.he rejects the food and gets angry. He played that part great.
And the recruit is the first film about the cia camps.I don't know a man who has not ever wondered "how can someone be chosen to CIA".
1t s great
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| Rating | | | Date | February 04, 2005 | | Summary | Deceptions Abound | Content
| The Recruit is one gripping movie. Just when James Clayton(Collin Farrell) thinks he has all the answers, Walter Burke(Al Pacino) shifts the game and changes the questions.
The storyline is filled with intrigue ranging from the tense CIA training sessions to the love interest between Clayon and Bridget Moynahan to the fake dissmissal of Clayton and much more. Al Pacino really lights up the screen in his role as the master manipulator. Its quite interesting how things end up for Pacino in the end. Some may think its predictable but I think otherwise.
A winner on many fronts although in comapring Pacino movie's I prefer Scent of a Woman just a bit more. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 23, 2005 | | Summary | Colin Farrell & Al Pacino: What's Not To Like? | Content
| As an action/supspense/thriller, this film has it all. Star power, twists & turns, a love interest for Colin, and wonderful dialog delivered expertly by Al.
Somehow, it just didn't quite intrigue me. I wasn't very invested in any character except for Colin's, and the story is nearly incomprehensible, as well as the ending.
It's fun and entertaining, in an action movie way, but little else. Good for a watch, but I wouldn't rush out to buy it. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 09, 2005 | | Summary | Sometimes things are better than they seem | Content
| This is a movie that I initially passed over, always finding something else to buy or borrow (as I don't steal), until I happened to catch the ending on television late one night.
By the next evening it was in my possession, and despite having already watched the ending, I found it to be a surprisingly enjoyable experience.
Al Pacino aced his role as Walter Burke, CIA trainer extraordinaire, and he's not a guy I would ever want to play poker with, even if I did play poker.
Colin Farrell's performance is pretty much like his other movies(except maybe "Alexander", but I haven't seen that yet, and I hate his blonde look), but he really does a great short, dark and handsome, tortured and persecuted thing. This time he's out of the phone booth and using his cell phone, whizzing through movie-style computer gibberish as James Clayton, the star recruit of the latest batch of CIA trainees.
Bridget Moynahan gives much the same performance as she does in "I, Robot", playing it smart and sassy with a real cute pout, and a concerned wrinkle.
Surprises and twists abound, and though you know it's all faked, and nothing is what it seems, it still draws you in. In retrospect, the ending really is the silliest part of the movie, the moral of the story being to sit down and relax whenever you see red dots before your eyes.
Amanda Richards, January 9, 2005
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