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Walter Burke: All right, your objective: Reach the parking lot with an asset who intends to have sex with you.

James Clayton: You want us to pick up a girl?

Walter Burke: Five, actually. One each.

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Roger Donaldson's mother Dorothy appears as a bystander in a street scene where Colin Farrell is running for a taxi. See more...

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The Recruit (2003) - 34 mistakes

Directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Al Pacino, Colin Farrell (add more)

Genres: Action, Thriller

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Continuity: When Layla's VW has hit the tree, James's truck is pulled up alongside her, facing forwards. When James drives off, his truck is facing the other way but there was not enough time for him to turn around, or any indication that he did turn around (i.e. no sound of a vehicle making a three point turn).

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Continuity: When Al Pacino is being shot, there is no blood on his top, just a bit of smoke.

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Continuity: When Layla is trying to get away from Clayton in the car chase, she goes to pass a blue car behind a white truck. It cuts to a shot from inside her car and the white truck is there, but no blue car. Another car is coming the other direction and she has to yank the wheel. She should have been creamed by the blue car, but wasn't because it disappeared.

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Continuity: When Clayton is hiding behind the SUV a shot from behind shows him peeking his head out to look at Layla. It cuts to a shot from the front where most of his torso is out from behind the SUV. Then another cut to behind shows only his head out again.

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Continuity: When Burke circles CIA on the newspaper at the bar, the newspaper is folded in half and positioned so Clayton can read it. A scene later the newspaper is not folded in half and it's positioned so Burke can read it.

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Factual error: When Burke is explaining the exercise about following the 'rabbit', in one of the shots on the ground there's a map of the world (I think it's a political map). So, the big yellow area in Europe looks very much like the Soviet Union which doesn't exist since 1991, besides, there's no Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea on that map.

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Factual error: After Clayton kills the man in the subway, he calls Walter using a cell phone and proceeds to tell him what just happened. Two trained CIA agents wouldn't use unsecure lines to relay that sort of information, especially when they are meeting soon.

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Continuity: When Clayton is a "prisoner", rips and tears in his shirt appear and disappear throughout the entire scene.

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Visible crew/equipment: In the scene where Layla drives her VW through the gate you can see a camera lens (a bright circle) in the passenger seat of Clayton's truck. This is the angle used for a brief moment from his view when she crashes through the gate.

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Continuity: After Colin Farrell checks out the Ice9 data on his laptop PC and calls Bridget Moynahan, he puts his Spartacus disc into the computer's drive. In the next shot, the laptop PC is no longer on his lap.

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Continuity: After getting shot, Zack touches the bloody jacket with his left hand. When he dies there's no blood on the fingers he touched it with.

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Factual error: When James is trying to enter the silver VW Beetle with Layla in it, he smashes the side window with a quick punch with his elbow. This is impossible since the windows in newer cars are made of plastic, and it would almost take a crowbar to smash it.

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Continuity: In the final scenes Al Pacino shoots at Colin Farell until the slide locks back on his pistol. When they make it outside there is a shot of the pistol with the slide fully forward just before they cut to another shot of him releasing the slide from the locked back position to the fully forward position.

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Factual error: When James jumps on a Metro train at Union Station after killing Zack, the Metro conductor's voice is heard to say, 'Red line to Shady Grove. Next station Dupont Circle.' On the red line going towards Shady Grove, the next stop after Union Station is Judiciary Square. Dupont Circle is actually the fifth stop after Union Station.

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