Fair Game

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Zom L Sep 17 A Gorgeous Opening Scene Trapped in a Dumb Movie. Fair Game is one of those movies that makes you wonder how a lot of money and some effort could add up to something so forgettable. But the highlight, without question, is the music by Mark Mancina. His score is rich, dramatic, and genuinely beautiful—especially in the opening sequence where Cindy Crawford runs along the beach at sunrise as the credits roll. The cinematography in that scene is stunning, and for a brief moment you think you might actually be about to watch a great movie. Sadly, that promise evaporates almost immediately. From there, things go downhill fast. Cindy Crawford may be undeniably one of the most strikingly beautiful women to ever headline a film, but unfortunately, she can’t act her way out of a paper bag. Her performance is stiff, wooden, and flat. William Baldwin isn’t much better—he looks like he’s just going through the motions, with zero charisma, delivering lines without any energy or conviction. Together, their lack of chemistry makes it nearly impossible to care about what happens to either of them. The villains don’t help matters. Their motivation for targeting Cindy’s character is so poorly explained and so absurd that it borders on parody. Instead of raising the stakes, it just makes the story confusing and laughably nonsensical. The action scenes themselves range from decent to painfully generic, and every time the film seems to gain a little momentum, it undercuts itself with bad writing or awkward performances. Plus, if the villains don’t want to be known, why are they doing things so publicly, like shooting and blowing things up out in the open, this obviously will bring attention to them, they're incredibly dumb villains. Then there’s the infamous train sex scene, which deserves its own paragraph. Imagine two characters supposedly running for their lives, hunted by armed killers. Instead of focusing on survival, they decide this is the perfect time to stop and have sex—in the middle of a moving train, no less. It’s not remotely sexy, it’s not romantic, and it’s not even believable. It’s laugh-out-loud ridiculous, easily one of the dumbest and most pointless sex scenes in action movie history. By the time the credits roll, you’re left with a movie that plays almost like a spoof of action thrillers, except it takes itself completely seriously. It’s dumb, it’s confusing, and it wastes whatever potential it might have had. The only redeeming elements are Mancina’s score and that beautifully shot opening sequence, which feel like they belong in a completely different, better film. Without them, Fair Game would be unwatchable. In the end, it's merely a dumb, disjointed action flick that feels like a parody of itself. See more Munkhchimeg T 07/25/2024 Very impressed. The plots and the each person’s histories are quite interesting See more Steve D 02/17/2023 The story is fun enough. Crawford is OK. See more 11/18/2016 T.E.R.R.I.B.L.E. BUT...a true "How Did This Get Made" classic!! See more 09/14/2015 At some point they had to have decided they were going to make the biggest joke of a movie possible. See more 04/06/2015 So bad it was a double career ender. Model Cindy Crawford's consistently leaden performance was so bad she never acted in a lead role again. Director Andrew Sipes, making his directorial debut, never directed anything ever again. You'll wonder "what the hell were they thinking" about every five minutes. See more Read all reviews

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