Doug Liman, who directed “The Bourne Identity,” certainly knows how to craft a spy thriller. The director assembled a sterling cast, headed by Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, for his excellent new political thriller “Fair Game.”
The film is based on the 2003 outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame by a member of the Bush administration after her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson, was publicly critical of faulty intelligence being used to win public support for invading Iraq. Several CIA operations were compromised and people died after Plame’s true identity was leaked to a newspaper. Although Bush official Scooter Libby was...
“Fair Game” – Lynn Venhaus (Belleville News-Democrat)
In his autobiography “Decision Points,” George W. Bush states that the decision to go to war in Iraq was “based in a large part on intelligence that proved false.” He doesn’t mention that a loyal CIA agent’s career was destroyed and some of her foreign operatives’ lives lost because of the politically motivated manipulation of data. But “Fair Game” does.
This fact-based drama is a gripping account of how Valerie Plame, a competent CIA specialist on nonproliferation, was betrayed by her government. It should outrage every citizen, but sadly, in these days of vicious partisan politics, it might not. We all know now...
“FAIR GAME” – KARL SIDES (THE FLICK FANATIC.COM)
You can’t fight the White House, unless you are married to Sean Penn!
Director Doug Liman, the man behind Mr. & Mrs. Smith and the Bourne Identity, brings a true story of intrigue to the big screen with his new film “Fair Game”. Fair Game is the story of the events that led up to the shock and awe strike against Iraq and the search for Weapons of Mass Destruction, that weren’t there. This ended up being a huge black eye in the Bush administration and they had to serve up a sacrificial lamb to take the fall and that was undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame.
Sean Penn and Naomi Watts star as Ambassador Joe Wilson and his wife...
“Fair Game” – Stephe Raven (KCFV 89.5)
Fair Game is a film about based on the true life account of ex CIA operative Valerie Plame. She was outed as an operative by a White House advisor, supposedly because she was not giving them intelligence that fit with their weapons of mass destruction ideology that they were trying to push at the time.
Naomi Watts coldly plays the lead in this film and I was somewhat disappointed in her portrayal until about the last 15 minutes of the film. Sean Penn who plays her husband, actually does an amazing job. He is a bit over zealous, but it fits. Shot against a gray backdrop of Washington, DC, we are shown the inner workings of how the CIA gathers... Bookmark Us
