Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

juneebuggy This was okay, not as interesting as it should have been based on the subject matter and a bit of a slow burn if I'm honest. The camera work is also jerky -as this is meant to be a sort of docudrama but I just found that aspect distracting. The story itself is also told in little snippets of events so that it jumps around and skips ahead with bits of stories. Superb performances from Naomi Watts and Sean Penn are ultimately what saves this and makes it at all watchable.Based on true events, this is a political drama that follows Valerie Plame, a CIA agent whose identity is leaked by the government after her husband writes an article criticizing the Bush administration. With her cover blown, Valarie struggles to save what's left of her career while her diplomat husband creates even more controversy.The storytelling here is angry for the most part and that comes through even with the undeveloped characters - I never did get a feel for anyone involved here. Despite everything though this still managed to be somewhat absorbing and by the end I did find myself invested in their story. I liked seeing the real Valarie in the final scene, giving her testimony. 7/21/15

jgstclair Naomi Watts is a powerhouse actor. She has yet to disappoint me in any film of hers. This is difficult subject matter because it's reality-based and deals with consequences that perhaps none of us on the outside of the Beltway would ever consider. Watch until the end -Sean Penn's character delivers one of the best speeches I've heard in probably 20 years. Does the movie reveal anything we didn't already know? Yes. As to exactly who it was that leaked Plame's identity/roll within the CIA is up for debate, but I think a strong case is made here. To answer the "why?" looks very much like what we'd expect from politicos inside the Beltway -subterfuge, obfuscation, vindictive. Penn & Watts are paired once again and don't disappoint -especially when you hear Penn's speech at the end. It will make you weep for what America lost during the GWB/Cheney years. Powerful!

sddavis63 With regards to the above quote, all these years later, we know how empty those words were. The Iraq War was an unnecessary tragedy. The Bush administration was neither seeking peace nor striving for peace. They were out for the oilfields. And woe to anyone who got in the way of the project.Enter Joe Wilson (Sean Penn.) Wilson was a U.S. ambassador sent to Afirca on a classified mission to investigate reports that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was buying uranium from Niger. Wilson came to the conclusion that it wasn't happening, and he submitted his report and then watched in disbelief as the United States continued on the path to war with Iraq, using the story of uranium buys in Africa as justification. After going public, the Bush Administration declared war not only on Iraq, but on Wilson's wife - CIA operative Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts.) The title "Fair Game" basically seems to mean that Plame, Wilson and the children and families became fair game, to be torn down and destroyed in order to continue to justify the war in Iraq. It's a frightening story of people at the highest levels of power playing with people's lives and careers, deliberately setting out to destroy those who oppose them, and adopting a definite "take no prisoners" mentality. I suppose those who supported Bush and the Iraq War will have denounced this as leftist Hollywood propaganda. I thought it was a quite credible portrayal of what goes on behind the scenes at the top. (9/10)

Tomus7 It seems to me that they had to fill the first half of the movie with a bunch of Plume's CIA operations - though these really had little to do with the Plume affair and were probably made mostly up - because the Plume affair itself didn't have enough meat/drama to make a movie from. Or maybe it did - they rather rushed through most of the later stuff.On the other hand, I appreciated that they reminded the viewer of the affairs' core issue in the scene near the end in which Plume's husband is talking to students and points out that they all know his wife's name at the expense of knowing the key sentence of Bush's speech. It was a bit heavy handed but it drove home the movies' point quite well.