The Recruit
Short description
James Clayton is a gifted computer programmer finishing his studies at MIT when a CIA recruiter named Walter Burke approaches him with an offer to join the agency. Burke draws him in partly by hinting at the unexplained disappearance of James's father years earlier. James agrees, passes the screening, and enters the Farm, the CIA's secret training facility, where Burke serves as an instructor and where James becomes involved with a fellow recruit, Layla Moore.
James performs well in the exercises, but the training ends with him being cut from the program. Burke then returns with a covert assignment: James is to work outside the usual channels to find a mole inside the agency who has been leaking pieces of a dangerous virus. Loyalty and trust become the central problem as James tries to determine who is playing whom.
Roger Donaldson directed the film, the tenth of fifteen features in his career as listed, following Thirteen Days and preceding The World's Fastest Indian. Colin Farrell plays James, Al Pacino plays Burke, and Bridget Moynahan plays Layla. The screenplay is credited to Kurt Wimmer, Roger Towne and Mitch Glazer. Made for a budget of 46 million dollars, the film took in about 101 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.6 out of 10 from roughly 147,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.4 from about 1,990 votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- Colin Farrell wears a TAG Heuer Kirium F1 watch in the film.
- During the filming of the scene where the characters of Colin Farrell and Al Pacino go to a restaurant, Al Pacino accidentally damaged the car they were driving in. This is clearly visible when he parks in front of the restaurant.
- The final scene of the film was shot in what was presented as an "abandoned warehouse" – the same location where Rob Marshall filmed the prison scenes for the musical "Chicago" (2002).
- The computer code shown in the film is simply a meaningless set of characters.
- The childhood photos of James and his father in the opening credits are genuine family photographs of Colin Farrell.
- The idea for the scene where the character played by Colin Farrell tells girls in a bar that he "just got out of prison" came from the actor himself. He said that he once used that line to pick up a girl at a bar, and it worked. The producers liked the improvisation, and the line made it into the film.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
