Review of The Recruit (2003) by Matt G — 09 Jul 2008

What started out semi-promising turned into a snoozefest of Colin Farrell pouting about a maybe-dead, maybe-alive father and hammy monologues to sum up what was confusing about the hour prior to the conclusion.

Bridget Moynahan does a decent job with the role she is given (re: look smoldering), as does Al Pacino (re: be Al Pacino). But the film suffers from too few characters and too little development among those aforementioned remaining figures.

There's so much deception and derring-do that contrasts with the psychological intricacies of the first thirty minutes of the film that the viewer becomes muddled in a conspiracy theory that doesn't entirely make sense. Not to mention the villain turns out to be exactly who you thought it would be.