Fair Game
Bourne Identity director Doug Liman reunites Sean Penn and Naomi Watts for their third film together.
Bourne Identity director Doug Liman sticks to familiar conspiracy territory, as he presents the true story of Valerie Plame.
Fair Game sees Sean Penn and Naomi Watts in their third feature together, after The Assassination of Richard Nixon and 21 Grams. Watts plays an undercover CIA operative whose cover is blown by her own people. It's a little bit complicated, so I'll let the official synopsis do the talking:
A suspense-filled glimpse into the dark corridors of political power, FAIR GAME is a riveting action-thriller based on the autobiography of real-life undercover CIA operative VALERIE PLAME (Naomi Watts), whose career was destroyed and marriage strained to its limits when her covert identity was exposed by a politically motivated press leak. As a covert officer in the CIA’s Counter-Proliferation Division, Valerie leads an investigation into the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Valerie’s husband, diplomat JOE WILSON (Sean Penn), is drawn into the investigation to substantiate an alleged sale of enriched uranium from Niger. But when the administration ignores his findings and uses the issue to support the call to war, Joe writes a New York Times editorial outlining his conclusions and ignites a firestorm of controversy.
With two of the best actors working in Hollywood today as leads, Fair Game should be electric, so why is this first trailer so disappointing? Hopefully I'll be proved wrong this November.
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