The Recruit Movie Details
The Recruit taglines:Trust. Betrayal. Deception. In the C.I.A. nothing is what it seems.
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| Directors: Roger Donaldson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 6.5/10 out of 38,860 votes |
“The Recruit” 2003 by Roger Donaldson – Movie Goofs
“The Recruit” Plot Summary
A brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in the Agency.
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“The Recruit” Goofs List
- Plot holes: SPOILER: Burke stresses to Clayton that Moore cannot copy Ice-9 and take it out of Langley since there are no disk drives on the PCs, nor printers (“company policy”). But a secure, disk-free PC would not have USB ports, either, since USB portable storage devices are – to all effects – drives.
- Continuity: The magazine of the Glock gun with which Clayton threatens Burke has an extension floor plate (which is angled and protrudes down from his hand). When Burke knocks the gun out of Clayton’s hands and it lands in the rear of the car, the magazine has a standard (level) floor plate.
- Continuity: At the end of the torture test, Layla’s jeans disappear and reappear in Clayton’s hands between shots.
- Continuity: During the title sequence of the movie a website is shown where Clayton posts information about his missing father. If you look at the address bar of Opera’s browser, it says “file:///vault1/projects/recruit/design/images/sourceimages/fakesite/htmled_site/page_02.html” – clearly a local reference to the “fake” website.
- Continuity: During the lie detector test course, Layla can be seen looking in several directions (with her eyes only). However, on the monitor her eye keeps looking straight forward.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Clayton exits the boxing hall and heads to the telephone, the camera is reflected in the glass door on the right-hand side.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Clayton enters Langley with his car you can see the camera reflected in the car roof in the overhead shot.
- Continuity: At the end of the movie, the two scratches (one above the brow, one on the upper cheek) on James’ face become longer and shorter, and with more and less blood, between shots.
- Factual errors: When Burke is telling Clayton about his start in the CIA, he says he is “fresh out of Ocala, Florida”, but he mispronounces his hometown “Ocala” as “OH-kuh-luh” when it’s actually pronounced “Oh-KAH-lah”.
- Miscellaneous: When Clayton is working the punch bag, just after Burke tells him that the bag knows more about him than he does, you can hear the director shout “cut” as Burke walks off.
- Continuity: During the training, when Layla is assembling her Steyr Aug assault rifle, the ammo magazine disappears and appears again while she talks to Clayton.
- Factual errors: Clayton, following a suspect, jumps out of a train which is standing in the station onto the rails on the other side of the platform. A public train will only have its platform doors open, never the doors that give access to the other railway.
- Factual errors: The stars in the CIA Book of Honour at the Memorial Wall, are not black, they are gold.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the recruits are playing poker, Clayton sees Zack’s raise. Ronnie then folds. At that point, the betting should have stopped, but Zack then bets again and Clayton sees and raises his bet, which causes Zack to fold.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When James is entering Layla’s secure work area, it sounds as if he enters 5-6 keys (each strike emits a beep), but only 4 coded (asterisks) marks appear.
- Errors in geography: When James is waiting for Layla to come out of CIA with the stolen software, he parks his truck on a lower level just next to the entrance. a) There is no such lower level near the CIA Langley entrance (even at a far away distance). b) If you park or mistakenly drive into the area near the entrance, in no time you would see gun trotting cops knocking on your windshield.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Burke tells Clayton that Layla Moore is from Worcester, MA. Burke pronounces it “Woo-ster”, instead of “Wuss-ter” or, as the locals pronounce it, “Wis-tah”.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After the recruits arrive at the farm and are assembled together for the first time, the Walter Burke character is introduced to the group as senior instructor, Walter Birch.
- Continuity: While training at The Farm, the recruits shoot at paper targets. When they are told to “stand and holster” and the targets reeled in, it can be seen that none of the paper targets have any holes in them.
- Continuity: When Burke emerges from the warehouse in the final scene the slide on his weapon is locked to the rear, signifying an empty magazine, unloaded condition. The weapon then appears with the slide forward, signifying a loaded condition. As Burke turns away, we hear him release the slide catch even though the slide was already released and forward.
- Continuity: During the scene where Clayton is kidnapped and put in the “Breaking test” cell, he’s seen with his hands at his side and un-cuffed. He even manages to throw his food at the door and punch it before sitting down still cuff-less, however, when the “guards” return to the room, he’s lying on the floor with his hands re-cuffed behind his back.
- Plot holes: Burke tries to convince Clayton he has blanks in the pistol. Clayton checked the magazine when he first received the weapon. He would have seen right away if there were blanks, as they look quite different from real rounds. He had also fired such weapons in the firing range, and this weapon at Zack. Blanks have no recoil so he would have immediately noticed the difference. Burke would know this, and would not have tried such a useless ploy, no matter how desperate.
- Revealing mistakes: At the end of the movie, when the operatives surround lying Burke it can be clearly seen that the operative in the foreground carries no clip in his assault rifle.
- Revealing mistakes: During the intro sequence one of the shots of the James Clayton web site reveals the address bar, exposing that it is in fact just a mock-up designed for the film and is not a web site on the Internet.
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