The Recruit, about a computer whiz (Colin Farrell) who is tapped by a shadowy figure (Al Pacino) to enter an elite CIA training program, takes the spy movie maxim that no one can be trusted and blows it up to outrageous proportions. There’s hardly a single
conversation between the characters that doesn’t involve some level of deception, and the movie itself can be as seductive as the lies its spooks tell. As long as you don’t expect too much, you won’t feel like a mark who has been used.
