Fair Game Movie Reviews

Former US Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson (played by Penn) asks a very good question in Fair Game: how did the question shift from why we went to war with Iraq to who my wife is? And that lies at the centre of this film about Valerie Plame, a covert CIA operative who was casually sacrificed by the Bush administration in an effort to silence her husband, Wilson, for suggesting that the White House had gone to war with Iraq manipulating intelligence

Like No One Killed Jessica, Fair Game is also based on a true story of power, corruption and lives destroyed. Sean Penn plays Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador who is asked to investigate reports that Iraq is buying Uranium from Niger. When the Bush administration goes to war claiming that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, citing the uranium buy as evidence, Wilson writes a scathing op-ed in the New York Times stating the opposite

As far as political dramas go, Fair Game, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, is a pretty good one, even if it is a little dry. The film looks back at the Washington scandal that erupted in 2003, shortly after the start of the Iraq war. CIA agent Valerie Plame (played by Watts) is trying to halt nuclear proliferation. Her husband Joe Wilson (played by Penn) is a former US ambassador and expert on Africa, who's sent to Niger by the CIA to check out allegations

Fair Game sees Naomi Watts deliver a spunky, controlled performance as CIA operative Valerie. The story is based on two books: Fair Game by Valerie Plame Wilson and The Politics of Truth by Joseph Wilson. It's a scathing critique of how the evidence of WMDs was cooked up to wage a war on Iraq. Valerie's husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson (Sean Penn), writes a piece in the New York Times against the claims of the White House

Fair Game is an excellent docu-drama, it entertains to the hilt.