Undescribable Perfection

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn) was a former US ambassador who once took a defiant stance against Saddam Hussein after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990.In the approach to the second Iraq war, Wilson was sent by the American government to Niger to find out if its government was selling nuclear material to Iraq. Wilson's report that Niger had not sent anything to Iraq was ignored by the hawkish elements in the White House.An angry Wilson went to the press telling them that his finding's were ignored. The Vice President's chief of staff, Scooter Libby deliberately leaked to the press that Wilson's was a CIA operative, Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) who sent her husband on the trip to Niger and thus she was fair game for her cover being blown.The trouble with the movie that it is just too earnest and dull. Penn plays Wilson too much as a boy scout always wanting to put the world to rights as his wife apologies for his behaviour afterwards.Plume cares about all those contacts she has made promises to and were left behind but the film forgets about them when it is convenient to do so. Also it is not if the CIA is squeaky clean. Has it never been involved in any dirty tricks? So spare me the lecture about Benjamin Franklin at the end of the film.

This movie is what Oliver Stone's "W." should have been. That is to say that it holds the Bush administration accountable. And it should be.The fact is that our invasion of Iraq was held under false pretenses and the fact is that the Bush Administration attacked any Americans that disagreed with it. There was even a bill that never passed the House, was never voted on, that would have made anyone that disagreed with the Bush Administration a domestic terrorist.Those are just facts. If you disagree with it for some sake of partisan loyalty, just look at the Dixie Chicks. All they said was that they wished Bush wasn't from Texas and look how badly they went after them.Look at the amount of openly anti-war Democrats in congress that found their way onto the no fly list.It's just a shame more people don't go to see movies like this. It should make you angry.The facts don't have to be 100%, this is a Hollywood movie, not a documentary, but it's not one that doesn't have a valid meaning behind it.So valid that it makes a great companion piece for "Good Night and Good Luck." It's that whole doomed to repeat it thing.The fact is, we live in extreme times. We live in times when people are extreme and they attack anyone that disagrees with them. It is still happening.We are still getting called "unPatriotic" and "unAmerican," for simply not agreeing with the far right. Just like we were when that junior senator from Wisconsin of all places was doing his level best to assure that anyone that wasn't militantly on the right was black listed.The same happened under Bush and "Fair Game" is a wonderful illustration of the levels extremists will go to, to undermine anyone that doesn't lockstep with their beliefs.Welcome to the new America, same as the old America.

(43%) Sean Penn's strong supporting performance is a plus point in this so-so political drama retelling the events in the run-up to the Iraq war that in turn has grown into a bit of a ridiculous farce. You really can't help but chuckle as Bush, using total balderdash "intelligence" created by one of Tony Blair's cronies, points the finger at little Niger for handing over nuclear weapons to Saddam. And if that was the case, which it wasn't, then where exactly did Niger get them from? Well chances are if the stuff actually existed in the first place it would have been originally created by Russia, or maybe China, and as they can't be easily pushed around as much lets quickly move on and concentrate on picking away at the little guys. Watching this now it really does raise the question how anyone, never mind millions and millions of people, ever fell for such nonsense. Besides the real-life political stupidity there's not a great deal to be offered here, and anyone with low levels of interest in such things will find this a hard sit.

Life against false behavior is hard. If you don't suck it up you pay. Especially when the government is the liar. I don't know why nations have to go to war, it escapes me. We already spend billions of rupees and dollar to keep on matching others artillery. It has always been a vicious cycle. You make weapons , we make weapons. You build nuclear weapons we need that to feel secure from you. What are we all going to with all the weapons god only knows. Lets see we might use it on innocent countries and drink there juice. In this case oil. Russia is doing such right now drinking Ukraine's blood. All for what power wealth and GDP. No one thinks of lives that are spent on this false conquests. Aren't we well passed people like Hitler. We don't need wars that are shameful. On no grounds. It is sad that Mr Bush being America's president collaborated in a false war. Coming back to FAIR GAME decided to discredited the only two who would have stood up for the truth. Their story is The unraveling of the cover up by the United states Government into going to war against IRAQ.