Empty acting is useless

Brett 2022-03-22 09:01:38

A bad movie, using the CIA recruiting and training students as a gimmick, just like an advertisement for admissions, more like an advertisement for health care products, attracting the audience to watch it, and there is no story connotation when it arrives. When I sit at home, I don't have to make up scripts.

It's really a decent shot. A big name like Al Pacino, with his hurricane acting skills and large lines, is his style, too much like a stage play.

Pardon me for quoting the director:
Roger Donelson, the film's director, said: "It's a psychological thriller with twists and turns, and you can't tell who the good guys are until the truth comes out,"— ----But Al Pacino's performance is the core of the whole film."

Look, the director has said that all the stories are for the audience to not know who is right and who is wrong, which is really true done. So make a fool of yourself. The atmosphere is very good, and there is no outstanding place, because the book is too bad.

If someone's performance is "the core of the whole film",------ the director is too outrageous, the actor's performance must be attached, There is a story, there are characters, and there is no co-authoring to watch the performance. Even if he is Al Pacino, the king of drama, what can he do?

Further quote: Producer Gary Barber adds: "On another level, this is also the story of a young man looking for a father,"

which sounds guilty, it's just nonsense, looking for a father is an introduction, and it's nothing in the end To explain, I thought that the person James was chasing at the station was his father, so why did he have to take care of him before and after.

Colin Farrell, young man, looks like Brad Pitt, looks hard, still looks like, finally, no.

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The Recruit quotes

  • Dennis Slayne: [shouting at Burke] Walter!

    Walter Burke: [stops in his tracks, blinded by the lights] Well, will you look at this? Twenty seven years, I'm finally in the spotlight, huh? What do you know. What do we do now? Come get my gun? Or do you just want to hang me? Hang the traitor!

    [shouts at Slayne]

    Walter Burke: You ready for that, Slayne? I hear you. "Why'd you sell us out, Burke?" I sold you out? No way!

    Dennis Slayne: [realizes what is happening] Jesus Christ.

    Walter Burke: [raving] Twenty seven years, neck deep in shit! Sell you out? Did I do my job? I ask you: you do your job? I hand you the target, I tell you who and where. All you got to do is act. What do you do? Do you do your job? No!

    [screams]

    Walter Burke: I'm obsolete! I'm irrelevant! Me! Shame on you! You yank me home, you shove me out in the woods! Some Ivy League prick who's afraid of having dinner in DC because of street crime is judging my worth!

    Dennis Slayne: The target is Burke, I repeat, the target is Burke!

    Walter Burke: [breaks off as he sees the laser sights on his chest] ... shoving me in the fucking woods...

    Dennis Slayne: Put it down, Walter.

    Walter Burke: [stunned, to James] They came for you.

    James Clayton: [distraught] Yeah.

    Walter Burke: The line to the CIA was a fake. You never told them.

    James Clayton: [upset] No, you did. Nothing is what it seems.

    Dennis Slayne: God dammit, Walter.

    Walter Burke: [smiles ruefully] You got me, hand in the cookie jar.

    [grins]

    Walter Burke: You got to give me one thing. I'm a scary judge of talent. Here goes nothing.

    [cocks empty pistol]

    James Clayton: No!

    Walter Burke: Bye bye.

    James Clayton: [screams at CIA] No bullets!

    [Burke is shot dead in front of him]

  • Walter Burke: You gotta give me one thing. I'm a scary judge of talent.