RELEASE DATE: 25th November 2010
- Entertaining as well as disturbing, that this story is fact not fiction.'Fair Game' has Sean Penn and Naomi Watts starring together again (they previously acted together in 21 Grams & The Assassination of Richard Nixon) in an action packed thriller based on a year in the life of former CIA agent Valerie Plame.
For those of you who don't remember the story, Valerie Plame was caught in the cross-fire of the US government's action to justify 'The War on Terrorism'. Valerie was sent to Iraq with a team of experts to uncover the 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' which were at the time, motivation for the US military invading Iraq.
In accepting and carrying out her misson,Valerie encourages the sister of an Iraq Scientist whom was apparently hired to work on the 'Weapons of Mass Destruction', to contact her brother. In exchange for the risk taken by the Scientist and his family, Valerie promises to help them escape from Iraq.
Throughout the remainder of the film we see Valerie wracked with guilt for the families she has put at risk overseas because of her failed mission and whom she is unable to save because her employment has ended at the CIA.
Sean Penn plays Valerie's husband a former Ambassador and activist with fire and passion, who also assists Valerie with some of her work and spends the rest of his time presenting lectures at University and trying to clear his wife's name. Although Sean Penn's role was pivotal to telling the story of Valerie Plame, I felt he lent little depth or interest to the story, regardless of the fact that he has a magnetic screen presence.
A little light on the script the film was interesting nonetheless because of the subject matter and reality of the story. The film also serves to shine light on the never ending list of dangerous and deadly secret's that the George Bush Junior government held and also helped me justify my sometimes uncomplimentary thoughts of the US government past.
Naomi Watts plays the lead role with feeling however her contribution to the film was unremarkable and I felt that any number of Hollywood actresses could have done equal if not more justice to the role.
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