The top mistakes in The Recruit http://www.moviemistakes.com/film3042 en Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:55:16 +0000 22528 In the scene where Layla is hooked up to the lie detector that tracks the movement of her eye, she is looking around the room and blinking repeatedly, but the eye on the screen (which is supposed to be hers) never moves or blinks, even though the camera is still on her. 22380 In the scene where Colin Farrell's truck is chasing the silver VW Bug, the bug crashes through a gate, sending debris into the truck's windshield, causing a spider-web impact break. In all subsequent shots, the windshield is undamaged. 28305 After Clayton says Burke's name to his 'captors' he is shown holding a pair of pants, in the next shot he is not holding them, then the next shot he is again. 26012 In the beginning of the movie when Al Pacino is supposed to be browsing the web you get a quick look at the address bar. It shows the URL to a local .html file instead of a website. 58953 Burke says Clayton graduated "top of your class at MIT, majored in nonlinear cryptography..." but MIT has no such major.