Red herrings all over the place...

Checked out The Recruit from the library and enjoyed it last night. Collin Farrell and Al Pacino are the two biggies in this one, and they play off of each other well. Farrell's American accent is in fine form - as it usually is, really impressed me in Minority Report - and Pacino keeps his acting reigned in enough to make him believable as a CIA recruiter/trainer.

The movie is a series of training exercises (or are they?) with tricks and traps (maybe) and constant lies and deceptions, crosses and double crosses. At one point, Pacino's character says to Farrell that everything from here on is a lie, that everything at the Farm (the training ground) is a test. And from there on, Farrell's never sure who's with him and who's against him, who's friend, who's foe, what's training, and what's real. Makes for a decently suspenseful time for us (though my wife and I both thought the twist was given away in the trailer, a little disappointing that but more common now than I wish it were.)

All in all, a fun movie...in the next couple of nights, I'll be back with The Insider which we also checked out at the same time...