Hollywood insiders say Irish actor Colin Farrell reminds them of a young Al Pacino. Well, they can put their money where their mouths are this weekend by watching the two talented actors in the CIA thriller The Recruit.

James Clayton (Colin Farrell), an MIT-trained computer wizard, is recruited by veteran CIA officer Walter Burke (Al Pacino) to become an agent-in-training at the Farm, a kind of mind-tinkering boot camp facility where big brother is always watching you. The young man hopes to verify that his own dad, who disappeared years ago, was a CIA operative. Clayton and other trainees, including Layla (Bridget Moynahan) with whom he falls in love, learn to parachute into enemy territory, plant bugs and bombs and withstand various mind-bending games and physical interrogations.

Walter tells them constantly that ''nothing is what it seems.'' James and cohorts never know when they are being tested, who is really who and if there's a set-up or a real deadly game afoot. There is a computer program under wraps at CIA headquarters that would destroy the Internet. After washing out of the agent training program, Clayton gets assigned to a low-level office job so that he can monitor an attempt to steal the program and perhaps track down the villains who are trying to steal the program......or is this all CIA bullshit?