K Dogg’s Quick Movie Review

Here’s a short review of a recent movie I’ve seen.

Movie: The Recruit

Starring: Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Bridget Moyanhan

Co-starring:

Rated PG-13

Time: approx. 105 min.

Al Pacino plays William Burke a recruiter for the CIA. He recruites James Clayton (Colin Farrell), a graduate at the top of his class at MIT, to be a new spy for the CIA. After Clayton receives his training, his first assignment is to find out if another agent is a double-agent and trying to set up a computer virus that will ruin the whole computer infrastructure of the United States. There's lots of cloak-and-dagger stuff in this movie. It could have used some more gunplay in it. Also, I thought there was too much love story in it for a spy movie. This movie is like a James Bond movie, but no where close to being as good. It was an okay movie. I expect more from a Pacino movie. I thought the most interesting part was the 15 minute documentary with the real guy from the CIA that accompanied the DVD.

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