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Summary: WHOS ON FIRST?
Review: This film has you wondering who is who what is what and what is the truth. In a complex set-up AL Pacino is the guy who finds new dudes for the C.I.A. He lands head first at Colin Farrells door turns him on to it. They test all the new guys at a hangout called the "farm" But it isnt long before you realize you are being tricked one turn after another. All the new agents are being fooled by each other untill they all distrust everyone. Finallly big Al busts Colins charecter out of the program and sends him home where he spends his days laying in the shower in dispair at being cut. But wait! this is a trick too, he really was the best guy in the program and he is needed for a mission. He has to discover a mole buried deep within the c.i.a. the maximum prob here is they think its his main squeeze and she thinks its him. Here we go again- with bullets flying and danger everywhere. Colin has to fiqure it all out and still keep his love jones on. does he do it? Does the director lay out the spreadsheet or what? This is a heavy kind of scene that will burn you down. Finally we all are treated to an ending that leaves us limp in our chairs.
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Summary: Way too predictable...
Review: Maybe it's just me, but they screwed up somewhere in the movie, and the "surprise ending" becomes apparent fairly early in the movie...
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Summary: Hello! This is a "Recruiting" movie
Review: 1. You don't get the CIA to actively help you, and "divulge" secrets especially for your flick unless there is something in it for them.
2. The whole premise of the first 1/3rd of the movie is to make the CIA look like a big Gen Y sleepover/campout.
3. Pacino's George Bush inspired rant about "Our cause is just" and how in a world of right and wrong "we choose right" is obviously an appeal to the post 9-11 mentality. The CIA probabally fed the dialouge to the producer/director because it had worked so well in thier focus group studies.This is a CIA advertisment with some plot development thrown in.
The last half of the movie could be considered a stand alone story, but first you have to sit through a CIA "infomercial".
Not that it's a bad infomercial, but still underhanded and obnoxious if you see it for what it is. "nothing is what it seems" HA HA.
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Summary: American hubris and hypocracy
Review: The Trainer reveals something about America's world of thinkin: There is Good and Bad. And we choose Good. There is Right and Wrong- and we choose Right. Come on! Story is about CIA who has used most ruthless methods to destroy enenemy. Remember Chile 1970 when CIA and his allies toppless democratically elected president and choose instead murderous right wing dictatorship under control of Mr. Pinochet. And this is just one example how CIA "choose right".
The film is quite a disapointment. Yes there is action, betrayal, etc. but something is missing. Boring movie. Ideologically typical American hypocracy. Bull.
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Summary: Well, to be fair...
Review: ...I didn't actually make it through the movie. No time constraints; I just abruptly remembered that I wasn't tied to the chair, and I didn't want to waste any more of my life on the possibility it might get better. Checking out some online criticisms later, it looks like I made a good decision. Turns out the opening 40 minutes that I found so intolerable were the GOOD part of the movie. Wow, who would have thought? Continuing my fairness theme, the movie was not without merit. Colin Farrell was as likeable as he could possibly be, when you consider that he was given nothing of interest to say. Had a young Tom Cruise (or any other mundane, annoying actor) played the role, we'd have an early candidate for the "Top Gun" of the 00's. And I mean this in the worst possible way. But, no, Farrell is a likeable, interesting actor, and so the movie never sinks to that ridiculous level. Al Pacino was less successful. In a role (God) that desperately had to be underplayed, he apparently played it exactly as written. Can't blame him for that, I guess, but we can second-guess his appearance in the film at all. I would have guessed that Al Pacino had options. Apparently not. Now that I've been so fair, allow me to indulge my distaste with the movie just a bit. The screenplay is hopeless trash. Situation, dialogue, characterization -- all bad. The most obvious, derivative piece of crap I've seen in quite awhile. No amount of directorial or acting expertise was going to overcome this amateurish effort. So if the part I watched actually was "the good part," then I really am being quite fair. Going overboard in fact...another hour of my life wasted would certainly have cost it another star. No need to thank me, Recruit fans.
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Summary: Worst Movie ever!!!!!!!
Review: I saw this moive in the theater with a large group of people with varying taste every person thought that it was the worse movie they have ever seen. Guys if you like Al Pacino and thinl he can do no wrong you will still hate this movie trust me. It is terible and what makes it worse is that they try and make it complicted so as to pass as an inteligent movie and hide the lack of a plot and acting that destroys this movie. It also has that generic feel to it you can tell the writers did no research about the topic and instead just tried to count on two big names to carry this terrible move. Nobody with any taste can enjoy this movie.
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Summary: a superb pscychological thriller!
Review: Al Pacino never disappionts me,his performance is high octane and good to the last drop.Colin Farrell is fast becoming a tour de force with this knock out performance i cant wait to see whats next!
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Summary: Better than prescription sleeping pills..
Review: I tried watching this film twice, but I fell asleep in the middle both times. Is Al Pacino's character good or bad? The plot twists and turns like the choreography of an epileptic break dancer, but I just did'nt care. In the end, I was snoozing. I'm glad I was'nt in a theatre watching this, those seats are so bad for napping.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: I felt the whole movie was very predictable - I pretty much figured out everything that was going to happen in the scene before it happened. Colin Farrel is a great actor and he does a really good job in his role, I just don't think he had much to work with. Al Pacino has done a lot better with both chosing roles and acting. This isn't a movie I would watch again.
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Summary: whoowahhh
Review: awesome movie with Pacino bringing Farrell into his world. great suspense will leave you hanging till the very last showdown. Farrell rocks as always and Pacino gives another great whooowahhh performance
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