Review of Fair Game (2010) by Simon C — 27 Mar 2011
This time it's for real.
In a case life imitating art this time the spy game is for real. In a bizarre, if sad indictment on America itself, the spies and their generals are fighting amongst each other. And for added surrealism their topic for debate is WMD.
In a more intellectual version of Mr and Mrs Jones there are two lead actors are competing for who is the biggest victim. Firstly there Joe Wilson, as a US envoy complains about his report being distorted in the name of legitimising the existance of WMD. In return for they punish him by exposing his wife as a CIA agent. And it's all true.
Expertly played by Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, this is a couple that you can on the one hand believe in, but on the other it looks too easy to be real life. OO7 it is not. But political it is, right down to Karl Rove, Bush's right-hand heavy, who is credited with saying: "Valerie Plame is fair game.".
Action is replaced by thoughtful political thriller old style. What is missing in spy action is more than comfortably replaced by the sense that the politics really is a dirty business and you can't beat the system.
This review of Fair Game (2010) was written by Simon C on 27 Mar 2011.
Fair Game has generally received positive reviews.
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