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The Recruit
2003
· Movie
· 115 min
C
MEANRANK
62/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3730
- IMDb #3119
- Google retired #1942
- Rotten Tomatoes #3689
- Metacritic #3354
- Letterboxd #3792
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4137
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3489
- Metacritic Critics #2809
- Metacritic Audience #3982
- Criticker #2602
- Douban #1668
- Kinopoisk #1613
- AlloCiné #3098
- Trakt #2983
Every rating
39–86
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 39, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 50, everyone else 64.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A brilliant young computer expert is recruited into the CIA by a mysterious and manipulative instructor. He is thrown into the dangerous, paranoid world of intelligence, where nothing is as it seems and trust is the ultimate vulnerability. His first assignment pulls him into a complex web of deception, forcing him to question who is running him and who is the real target.
Details
- Director
- Roger Donaldson
- Writers
- Kurt Wimmer, Mitch Glazer, Roger Towne
- Studio
- Birnbaum/Barber Productions
- Released
- 31 January 2003
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $46.0M
- Box office
- $101.2M
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