The Recruit (2003)

Great setup, but what happened to the followthrough? I liked the first part of this film with its various training exercises and whatnot, but everything after the 'capture' exercise seems to have shown up from some other, stupider movie. Colin Farrell handles whatever the script throws at him, but Al Pacino's performance actually deteriorates along with the film -- by the climax, he's regressed into the Lazy Screaming Overacting Al Mode that he uses in projects of lower calibre.

Grade: C+