The use

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Movie
German title The use
Original title The Recruit
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Roger Donaldson
script Roger Towne
Kurt Wimmer
Mitch Glazer
production Jeff Apple
Gary Barber
Roger Birnbaum
music Klaus Badelt
camera Stuart Dryburgh
cut David Rosenbloom
occupation

The Mission is an American thriller that was made as a 2003 film directed by Roger Donaldson .

action

Shortly after graduating from a top university , James Douglas Clayton was recruited for the Agency by CIA scout Walter Burke. At the "Farm", an education and training site, Clayton meets other contenders - among them the attractive Layla Moore.

After a hard workout and various aptitude tests, where it can be manipulated by his affection for Layla, he is released as unfit, just a short time later by Burke as undercover (Engl. Non-official cover , NOC) to be recruited again.

His first assignment is to find a mole in his own ranks that is trying to steal a computer virus from the headquarters in Langley . According to Burke, Layla is suspected of being that mole. Clayton should now contact her and find out what information she already has. Clayton becomes Layla's lover. During his research, he finds out that Layla is smuggling the virus out of headquarters in small pieces on a USB stick .

He then confronts Layla and finds out that she had an official assignment to steal the software from headquarters in order to evaluate the security measures there. When he confronts Burke about it, Burke attacks him. Clayton is able to flee to an abandoned warehouse, where Burke tells him in great detail how he plans to betray the CIA in order to earn three million US dollars by selling the software.

Clayton succeeds in simulating a webcast with his laptop that broadcasts Burke's speech to Langley. When Clayton escapes from the warehouse, pursued by Burke, a group of CIA agents and heavily armed soldiers await the two. Burke, believing that his betrayal has been exposed, gives a speech in which he justifies his betrayal. Too late, he realizes that the agents actually came to the warehouse about Clayton and the webcast was just a ploy. Now that he has incriminated himself, he draws his gun, which however has run out of ammunition, and dies the desired suicide by cops in a hail of bullets. At the end, the wall of the dead CIA agents is shown, where the star of an unnamed agent can be seen with the year of death of Clayton's father. This indicates that Burke wasn't lying and that James' father was really with the CIA.

Reviews

“Nothing is as it seems in this intelligent thriller by Roger Donaldson (' Thirteen Days '), which brings back pleasant memories of similar genre classics like ' The Three Days of the Condor ' or ' Witness to a Conspiracy '. Handcrafted to perfection, this ingenious cat-and-mouse game lives off the excellent play of its two main actors, Al Pacino and Colin Farrell. Bridget Moynahan (' Coyote Ugly ') provides the visual stimuli - this time as a heroine with a brain. A safe tip in the high-voltage genre. "

- Video Week

"The CIA picture that the film paints is criminally naive, you not only get instilled with political values ​​and an extremely one-sided CIA image, it is also suggested to share the essentially cynical view of the instructor Walter: A few bombs, a few civilian victims - what does that matter? 'The Mission' is a film that gives away the chance to look behind the official masks of the secret services in the style of old Graham Greene or John le Carré film adaptations and to tell us something about the people who gave their lives for risk what they consider to be their patriotic duty. Nevertheless, one is still tolerably entertained. "

- Rüdiger Suchsland

"Flawless thriller, whose permanent twists and turns tire in the long run, against which even the self-assured leading actors can do little."

Awards

Colin Farrell was nominated for a Teen Choice Award in 2003 and an MTV Movie Award in 2004 for Best Newcomer for his acting performance .

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “valuable”.

useful information

  • The excerpts at the beginning of the film that show James Douglas Clayton together with his father are private images from Colin Farrell's childhood.
  • The pick-up line (“I'm just coming from construction, and there is only one thing important to me.”) In the bar during training is based on an experience Farrell claims to have already had success with the same line.
  • Allusions to the writer Kurt Vonnegut and his work are made throughout the film . From the name of the computer virus to the scene in the café where Clayton reads Vonnegut's book Slaughterhouse Five .
  • In one scene, Clayton, played by Farrell, names one of the trainees Sonny Crockett because he is from Miami. Three years later, Farrell took on the role of Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Age rating for Der Einsatz . Youth Media Commission .
  2. The mission . Video week
  3. ^ Rüdiger Suchsland: The use ( memento of March 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) for the Bavarian radio
  4. The mission. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used