DVD 115 mins IMDB 6.5

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#24

Thriller, Crime, Action

Al Pacino	Walter Burke
Colin Farrell	James Clayton
Bridget Moynahan	Layla Moore
Gabriel Macht	Zack
Mike Realba	Ronnie
Karl Pruner	Dennis Slayne
Ron Lea	Bill Rudolph
Richard Fitzpatrick	Rob Stevens
Chris Owens	Art Wallis
Sam Kaliheh	Elliot
Kenneth Mitchell	Alan
Jeanie Calleja	Co-Ed #1
Jenny Levine	Blonde with Cell Phone
Conrad Bergschneider
Tony Craig
Eugene Lipinski

Director	Roger Donaldson
Producer	Jeff Apple; Gary Barber; Roger Birnbaum
Writer	Roger Towne; Kurt Wimmer

At an MIT graduate student recruitment fair James Clayton (Colin Farrell) impresses a recruiter from Dell with his program SPARTACUS, which is a program designed to enslave all computers networked to it. However, Clayton seems more interested in finding his long lost father than getting a job. Later that night he is approached by Walter Burke (Al Pacino) who attempts to recruit him to the CIA, initially he is not interested, but Burke sparks his interest by mentioning his father. Signing up to join the CIA he is put through the rigors of selection and then training. While training he meets and falls in love with Layla (Bridget Moynahan) another recruit. When Burke tells the group that only one of them will be the NOC or non official cover operative, they all strive to achieve this post. After apparently failing a training exercise Clayton is booted from the program only to discover from Burke the next morning that he has been chosen as the NOC. His job as NOC is given to him directly by Burke, and he quickly becomes entangled in a web of espionage intrigue, from which he may not be able to escape.