Fair Game

Plot synopsis:
Valerie Plame is employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, a fact known outside the agency to no one except her husband and parents. She is an intelligence officer involved in a number of sensitive and sometimes dangerous covert operations overseas.
Her husband, Joseph C. Wilson, is a diplomat who most recently has served as the U.S. ambassador to Gabon. Due to his earlier diplomatic background in Niger, Wilson is approached by Plame's CIA colleagues to travel there and glean information as to whether yellowcake uranium is being procured by Iraq for use in the construction of nuclear weapons. Wilson determines to his own satisfaction that it is not.
After military action is taken by George W. Bush, who justifies it in a 2003 State of the Union address by alluding to the uranium's use in building weapons of mass destruction, Wilson submits an op-ed piece to The New York Times, claiming these reports to be categorically untrue.
Plame's status as a CIA operative is subsequently revealed in the media, the leak possibly coming from White House officials, including the Vice President's chief of staff and national security adviser, Scooter Libby, in part to discredit her husband's allegation that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. As a result, Plame is instantly dismissed from the agency, leaving several of her delicate operations in limbo and creating a rift in her marriage.
Plame leaves her husband, further angered by his granting of television and print interviews, which expose them both to public condemnation and death threats. Wilson ultimately persuades her, however, that there is no other way to fight a power as great as that of the White House for citizens like them. Plame returns to him and testifies before a Congressional committee, while Libby is convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice and given a 30-month prison sentence, although President Bush commutes the jail time on Libby's behalf.

Tags: violence, cult, comedy, murder, sadist

Review:
And sometimes fans of pure action-entertainment are the target audience and we have a film like "Fair Game".This is a film which most people have a strong opinion of.
While it's true that no-one has been able to make a good macho-actioner since the 80s (except Steven Seagal and even he is now making films like "The Patriot"), this is a quality effort if there ever was one.
This has everything I want (a macho cop as the hero, a sexy woman as his sidekick, lots of action and gratuitous violence) and nothing I don't (a deep and original plot, Academy Award-winning actors, emotional scenes between mom and daughter...).
Actually many scenes here are so stupid that they could be considered campy and even if you aren't a fan of the genre, you might enjoy laughing at the movie's unintentional humor.One of the things which always means a lot to me in films is the score and "Fair Game" has one of the best scores I've ever heard.
In fact, "Fair Game" is like a throwback to the 80s, when Joel Silver still made good actioners (Commando, Action Jackson, Die Hard, Road House - all brilliant).
Even if you liked films like "Speed" and "Face/Off", you might not like this.Gunfights, explosions, gratuitous violence, gratuitous nudity (from Cindy Crawford, no less!), a brilliant score..what more could a guy who loves action ask?
I've never heard or seen anyone more stilted and lifeless except for a really bored telemarketer.The writing was just BAD, and the movie was just about look how good Cindy looks after being dumped in water and having no shower.
Let's just say that the man credited as her acting coach clearly didn't see all his efforts go unrewarded.And you have to give her and the rest of the cast and crew credit; no one ever pretends that "Fair Game" is anything other than an unpretentious action film, which can't be a bad thing.
(But then even Cindy's biggest detractors have never claimed she was pretentious.) While it is mainly for fans of the moled one, it's still short enough not to hurt, and it certainly improves on the last time the Paula Gosling novel it's based on was turned into a film (the truly awful "Cobra" with Sylvester Stallone), and you don't often see films starring lawyer characters doing something other than criminal law.
And before you point out that no lawyer ever looked as good as Cindy Crawford, remember that that never stopped Steven Bochco - or David E.
It must have sounded like a good idea at the time: "Die Hard With Legal Mumbo-Jumbo" with a twist: we'll have a sexy model as the star.Erm, it sounds good on paper, and perhaps it would have been a good idea if they hadn't screwed the damn thing up by giving us a weak script, even weaker plot, weaker villians and then give up on the sexy model as John McClane and turn her into a damsel in distress.It almost feels like Producer, Joel Silver is satirizing or parodying himself in the constant need for set-piece action after set-piece action strung together on the weakest thing to ever grace the screen.Everything that hits something explodes, cars hit telegraph poles and explode violently, tree's that are in the way explode even more violently...its almost too much to take in.
I know action is what was driving hollywood around the early 90s - but this is just TOO much.Anyway, the film pretty much nose-dives when Crawford - who looks stunning - turns into a damsel in distress with Baldwin acting like he's painting by numbers - just doing the thing because either Stallone dropped out or because of the money.Not even the "sex-scenes" can save this terrible affair.
That plan falls apart when the feisty and pretty civil lawyer Kate McQueen, Cindy Crawford, got in their way and had to be eliminated in order for them to keep up their illegal activities.
Attempting to assassinate Kate at the beginning of the movie as she was jogging down swanky Ocean Drive she has Homicide Detective Max Kirpatrick, William Baldwin, assigned to be with her around the clock to watch protect and defend her, it's a real hard job but somebody's got to do it, against other attempts on her life.
Far more violent then most action police movies with almost the entire cast wiped out, with the exception of Max & Kate of course, by the ending credits.
The action scenes of "Fair Game" are a lot like the old Saturday afternoon cliff-hangers with Max & Kate looking like they've had it and then just getting away from the bad guys every fifteen or so minutes in the movie.
The bad guys are as bad as they can get in what they do and try to do, you can just imagine anyone trying to hurt or kill Cindy Crawford has to be the biggest enemy against hu-MAN-ity in history.The last half-hour of the movie is non-stop action on the roads and highways as well as railroad trains and ships in the South Florida area with the most graphic boat sinking since, even though movie was made in 1995 but I haven't seen it until 2004, the movie "Titanic" in 1997.
I mean, Cindy Crawford plays a brilliant lawyer, for God's sake!Then there's the "infrared scope" scene, the stupidity of which is beyond my descriptive powers.And am I wrong, or was "They did it on computers!" a really lame explanation for all this, even back in 1995?And I have given up trying to understand how the bad guy's plan is supposed to  work--I mean, what is killing one lawyer supposed to accomplish?
Whether this is because he's too stupid even to gain employment in Hollywood, or smart enough to have changed his name, I don't know.Idiot director Andrew Sipes (whose cinema career seems to have come to an abrupt and deserved end after he helmed this, his one and only movie) tries to add "excitement" to the first couple of "action" scenes by doing flash pans accompanied by "SHOOM!" noises, although he abandons this after the first couple  of scenes and moves on to the even more clichéd slow-motion.If anyone had been stupid enough to give Ed Wood a $50-million-dollar budget (and if anyone had been, it would have been idiot producer Joel Silver), this is  the movie he would have made.
I said that because Kirkpatrick (William Baldwin) and Kate (Cindy Crawford) were always on the run from danger.
What's more (or to add good expectations for the male side) you get a full glimpse of Cindy Crawford's bare breasts and the millionth Baldwin brother to take a shot at acting.
Lots of Action and Cindy Crawford Topless  How Bad Can it Be?.
After the rather absurd attempted shooting of Crawford in the opening scene, `Fair Game' begins rather effectively examining the loss of privacy in the digital world, a fresh idea in 1995 (`Enemy of the State' didn't arrive till three years later).
Fair Game incorporates elements from every terrible action/suspense/thriller movie and creates the ultimate viewing experience in that you get the best of everything and the worst of nothing.
i actually enjoyed this film, we know cindy Crawford isn't the academy award actor, but simply this movie had an amazing ambiance to it, the Miami setting, the score of mark mancina simply amazing let's you get involved, the cinematography was good, bad script and bad plots doesn't mean the viewer doesn't enjoy the movie, it doesn't have to be that bad script makes a bad movie, these types of films are for fun, entertainment, it doesn't want to be serious more than it has to be, i recommend it for all action lovers, this is the same as Armageddon,deep impact,the specialist, these movies are for fun, not every movie has to have a strong plot..
William Baldwin stars as a cop who protects a high powered attorney (Cindy Crawford in her career stopping performance!) from a group of terrorists who for some reason are looking to do our bubbleheaded attorney in.
Fair Game plays less like an action flick and more like an ego trip for Cindy Crawford and Billy Baldwin.
The reason Fair Game is so bad is it because it represents what is wrong with action movies as it comes from the "Bigger is better" school and although the explosions and action stock come from the assembly line, I think it is more important that we acknowledge that at one time there was a movie that said, not only can Cindy Crawford act but she can also play an intellectual who is a damn good lawyer too!
"Fair Game", essentially a remake of a painfully funny 1986 turkey, "Cobra", starring Sylvester Stallone and then-bride, hulking she-beast Brigitte Nielsen, tells the story of a beautiful lawyer and a studly cop being chased by baddies.
The cop is played by William Baldwin; the lawyer by model Cindy Crawford, in her acting debut.
In "Fair Game" you KNOW she's not to be messed with because: 1) she's outfitted in bulky black leather, 2) she speaks with a generic Eurotrash accent and says "witty" things like "Let mama make it feel better!" while beating up Baldwin, and, most importantly, 3) she's given a brutal haircut and has bright red lipstick slashed across her downturned mouth.
Just like real life.) Baldwin has never really been much of an actor, and he often seems to have little, if any, chemistry with his female co-stars (perhaps because he's usually prettier than them?), but I suppose he tries his manful best to give a credible performance (or at least as credible as is possible with this movie).
In fact, MOST of the bad guys here do the same thing, again and again: run up to fire at their target, then pause while Baldwin or Crawford can shoot first.
I think the reason Cindy Crawford was cast in this movie was because the producers were hoping that the audience would be so busy admiring her beauty that they wouldn't notice how bad the movie was.It's hard to find anything good to say about this movie.
There were moments where I was laughing at the unintentional humor, but mostly I sat there with my jaw on the floor amazed at how awful this movie was.Cindy Crawford looks hot, but that's the only positive thing I can say about this film.
Fair Game has been justly maligned for its bad plot arcs and often absurd dialogue, especially from the head Russian mobster, but the movie also has some positive attributes.
Before I start the review, I would just like to point out that Fair Game is not entirely bad because of Cindy Crawford's performance.
Nine years before this movie, Cobra (1986) which starred Sylvester Stallone in an action packed film that was great to watch.
Obviously this is not the greatest movie ever to hit the big screen but it can please action fans to a point because that is the strong element in this film.As the second adaptation to Gosling's book, other than Stallone's Cobra (1986), this film is mostly unrealistic because of how the plot was written up.
All in all, it makes a good popcorn flick for when you just want to sit down and watch some random action movie; but that's about it..
In fact, that annoying mole on Cindy Crawford's lip is the best performance in the movie.
i fail to see why this movie has such a low rating on this site(3.7/10).and i also seem to remember critics blasting it.again,i fail to see why.for me,Fair game is an intense,exciting chase movie.so what if it's generic and not that original.to me,it's more about what you do with the material.in this case,the filmmakers made an entertaining movie.it even had some funny one liners.and the stakes in this movie are a bit higher.the bad guys are not your typical bad guys.they're smart and deadly and have no problem killing people.William Baldwin plays Max,a cop who must protect Kate,(Cindy Crawford)a high powered attorney who has angered the wrong people.from this point,the movie is basically a high intensity chase down to the wire.William Baldwin does a good job,but that's not surprising.Cindy Crawford,not having acted before,did a fine job as well.she was i think the brunt of the criticism of this movie,and undeservedly.there are many actresses out there who are much worse than she is in this film.unfortunately her acting career ended before it began thanks to unfair critics and movie goers.if i were a filmmaker,i would cast her in a film,but then i saw potential where almost nobody else does.but that just shows how shortsighted people are.for me, Fair Game is easily an 8/10.
Kirkpatrick and Kate must work out who is trying to kill them and stop them before they are caught.This was Cindy Crawford's big vehicle to turn her from a model into a movie star - and it didn't quite work.
Now action films never really need that good a plot, but this needed a much better reason than it had for the criminals trying to kill Kate - when you find out what it is it's all a bit silly and killing her wouldn't actually have solved it!
The daftness is shown by the way that they try everything to kill her (blow up her house, shoot her on the street, car chases in public etc) and it's obvious that they don't care who sees - but when they eventually catch her, rather than kill her they kidnap her and keep her alive (don't know why) just so Billy Baldwin has time to come rescue her!The action itself is quite good - however the opening scene where a jogging Crawford is just missed by a bullet is the most tense scene in it.
It's all soft focus, bit of breast, bit of ass etc and the way it is forced into the action shows that they wanted to show a bit of skin but weren't sure where to get it in!Considering it's Crawford's film, she mostly has second billing to Baldwin as she doesn't have much to do except play the "woman-in-peril" card for all she's worth.
To show you how wrong this film is in terms of performances - Crawford is given the lead while a really good actress like Salma Hayek is given a tiny role as Kirkpatrick's quickly forgotten girlfriend.Overall some good explosions but don't you want more than that?
Fair Game definitely falls into the latter category.Some reviewers have commented on how great it was to see Cindy Crawford naked.
Much like the fact that she takes two (!) showers in the movie, but doesn't allow us to see anything.Of course the producers of the film didn't think people would be watching for Crawford or Baldwin's acting skills (they have none, of course), but rather to watch two sexy characters.
The movie itself is some thrown together by-the-numbers story about a cop (the always slimy William Baldwin) protecting a lawyer (Crawford) from a Russian out to kill her for a pretty stupid reason.
Laughably over-the-top action dud that does its best to cover up its silliness by focusing on attempting to make Crawford a movie star.
'Fair Game' belongs to the area of bad movies we love.The action-pope Joel Silver just wanted to introduct top model Cindy Crawford to the mainstream business.
Cindy Crawford did good in her debut role, I went to watch this thinking "Oh no"  but she was fair to say the least.
lol i saw a review for this film the other day and was told it was terrible which i disagreed with i rememberer watching this 12 years ago when i was 14 and thought it was amazing but when watched it last night i thought it was absolutely terrible maybe watching it as a hormone obsessed teenager seeing cindy crawford probably made me have favourable memories of the films but its not so good watching it as a adult some silly moments and remarkable that with everyone trying to kill her in the film she doesn't seem to show any emotion to it whatsoever also heard the old stallone film cobra is based on this think ill give that a try instead its good to watch once but don't buy it on DVD you will feel like getting a refund if you do.
Your time will be better spent asleep than watching this movie......Cindy Crawford does not know how to act at all, but maybe it was this role that was horrible, who knows?
When I was 15 years old, and this movie came out, Cindy Crawford was the absolute bomb.
As one review put it at the time, "Cindy Crawford makes her film debut.
It can easily flow from late afternoon, before the sun starts to set at all, to well after the sun has set, in a matter of seconds.Choppers can't be heard over bad sex scene music and Cindy Crawford's disinterested moaning.Cops leave the safety off when they put their gun away.Trained assassins watch their target do a random Baldwin brother instead of actually doing their job.A bomb counts down from 2 minutes 57 seconds to 1 minute 47 seconds in just under 15 seconds.
Supermodel Cindy Crawford launches her star movie career,and promptly crashes it in FAIR GAME.The premise to begin with is heavily far-fetched as we're supposed to accept La Crawford as a high-flying lawyer in trouble with ex-KGB baddies intending to exterminate her at all cost over some nonsense concerning a boat belonging to an associate,while would-be macho cop Billy Baldwin is on hand to protect our Cindy when the ensuing mayhem starts.And what mayhem!
Have a few people get shot, blow something up real good and make Cindy Crawford take her top off.
It was little more than a try-hard action movie created to flaunt Cindy Crawford's apparently attractive body.