Movies, in general, are made for entertainment. We all like going to the theater to see the biggest box-office hit yet or we like putting in a DVD into the player and watching an old classic or any other kind of movie feel like watching. Movies are a pleasant way of pastimes, unless, if we find ourselves watching a bad movie.
Fair Game is a movie that has not been made for entertainment, but rather as a real-life political vehicle. That's sad. Fair Game is boosted by riveting performances by the two lead actors, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. However, it's a pic that we would all expect to be a genuinely true political thriller, and one with at least a little action involved. Instead, it sinks down into becoming an attack on the Bush administration, and not showing any mercy in that respect. But the last thing I want to do is to turn this movie review into a political stance essay, so I'll move on.
The movie focuses on how Valerie Plame, a CIA agent (and wife and mother), was kicked out of her CIA position when her husband, Joe Wilson, wrote a newspaper article stating that President George W. Bush knew full well that there were no nuclear weapons in Iraq, but went with the go ahead to invade anyway (the Invasion of Iraq in 2003 commenced). Plame receives death threats every day, while Wilson tries to convince the American people about his stance in the war. That's when Fair Game becomes a political engine for people anti-Bush.
This is a movie that lacks suspense and excitement. Doug Liman helmed this picture. He made a worthwhile action flick in the 2002 the Bourne Identity. Here, he makes a movie that's not really worth my time.
Essentially, Fair Game is a movie that you would expect to have action and thrills. It doesn't. Therefore, it's a movie that I would totally expect to enjoy. In reality, it's a movie that I had to endure.
**/5
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