| Fair Game | | Cast : | William Baldwin, Cindy Crawford, Steven Berkoff | | Director : | Andrew Sipes | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby | | Released Date : | November 03, 1995 | | DVD Released Date : | June 01, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 08, 2005 | | Summary | AWFUL!!!! | Content
 | I was extremely bored one day and happened to find this DVD lying around. From the opening scene, (was that a bullet, piece of glass, firecracker? she should have just been mugged or something. some better excuse to get her to the police station) I knew I was going to have to endure some low-class acting and that was exactly what it turned out to be. Crawford could have been more believable as a porn star than as a lawyer in the movie. She overacted...or is underacted...and leaves me wondering how on earth this movie went through all the stages that a movie has to go through before it is finally released. The original plot was ok except a bit weak. the fact that the lawyer wanted a boat to go to a client did not warrant the massive manhunt that followed leading to the death of several cops, only to capture her, bore the audience with their explanations and keep her alive long enough for her cop-friend to rescue her.
The sex scene was so ill timed, or am I naive to think that just a minute after surviving shoot-outs, major car crashes and explosions, jumping onto a moving train, jumping off a car that explodes seconds after, someone can immediately be that turned on and have sex?? Baldwin was not too bad except I expected more remorse and grief from a man who had just lost a couple of workmates, a best friend and a cousin in a matter of hours but still managed to crack jokes and be extremely horny.
The star of the movie was Selma Hayek whom we get to see in 2 scenes. Only problem is we don't know why the hell she is so upset with her boyyfriend??????????????
Don't waste your time and money on this one folks! PLEASE!!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 31, 2005 | | Summary | Love It or Hate It... This is Uncompromising Action Entertainment! | Content
| It's weird but, I am one person who happens to like this movie. Yeah it wasn't the best, with a lot of weak unexplainable points, with some bad acting. Overall though, there's more reasons to like it I thought.
First of all, people who say this movie had a ridiculous plot makes me laugh. Assassins(Sylvester Stallone), Desperaldo(Antonio Banderas), Strange Days(Ralph Fiennes), and Virtuousity(Denzel Washington). Didn't these four titles all have very odd plots as well? All of these came out in the year 1995 so I just think Fair Game is the least one seen by anybody.
William Baldwin... not my favorite Baldwin brother, still I like them all. Sliver(Sharon Stone), and Flatliners(Kevin Bacon) are the only other two movies I really like him in. As a cop trying to protect Crawford, not knowing who to trust or where to go... I thought Baldwin was very good, not a lot of chemistry but worth watching.
Cindy Crawford... not exactly hot to me, or unique enough to call an actress. As a model though, trying to take this character role of a girl who's running for her life... she was decent. I don't know, when you're watching this you seriously never even think about her with everything else going on.
The supporting cast for this movie I thought did a very convincing acting job. Christopher McDonald(Happy Gilmore) plays a great pissed off boss. Salma Hayek(Fools Rush In) plays a great ex-girlfriend to Baldwin. Steven Berkoff(Beverly Hills Cop) was a great russian KGB villian. In fact all of the villians in Fair Game were excellent and well known for other movies.
Director Andrew Sipes, in all of his movie career in movies.. as anything being an actor or a writer. Directed Fair Game, and wrote one episode for Street Justice on tv... that is it. So that's one reason why people can give this bad reviews.
Compared to movies today, or any movie made simular to this kind of action, all of the action movies made in the 90's... yeah, they were all better then Fair Game just about. In 1995 though, Fair Game I thought was great... if it's on tv now I could even watch it. Cobra(Sylvester Stallone) is another movie for example I could say was great back in its day. A movie many people gave very little credit to again.
If I was you, I would just went Fair Game and give it a chance... I don't know if you'll like it. I just know it won't be the worse thing you could ever see. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 15, 2005 | | Summary | Just No Brainer Action | Content
| Critics slam this because they try to compare it to "Witness", "The Client" or some other movie with better actors and a more plausible storyline. Personally I think Baldwin and Crawford have a chemistry and it and the screenplay works. Just go into it without any preconceptions and you will probably find it a decent action movie. Fair acting, great special effects, and good music make this worth checking out.
When a civil lawyer played by Crawford demands her client get a ship in international waters, she puts herself on the hitlist of a group of Ex-KGB assassins. Using high tech equipment they track her every move and attempt to kill her. In steps a cop played by Baldwin to try and help her survive long enough to get into witness protection. He almost single handedly takes out all the Russian terrorists. Good picture and sound quality but no extras. I picked it up for a little more than the cost of a rental. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 02, 2005 | | Summary | crawford and movie acting do not mix. | Content
| Be it ever said that Cindy Crawford did not try new things, No she did, although the results were mostly a disaster. After so many years of being in front of a camera (Magazine shoots, Revlon Adds, and Various Fashion shows), Crawford tried to make the leap to film acting (although she never had any formal acting training at school), so she and her agent pursuaed Warner Brothers to cast her alongside Baldwin in this 1995 action thriller. The results were a huge disaster. The script was never really developed to make these charecters as anything other then comics drawings. Baldwin does not play a connvincing detective and Crawford is totally unbelieveable as a lawyer. Even the villians seem typecasted from a Van Damme film. You know that these two evenually end up in bed toether, but the scene seems rushed and forced upon the audience, The final action scenes seem a waste of money and filming. The movie bombed with both critics and the audiences, and the home video sales have also been under-welming. It might have been better if Crawford had been cast in a light romantic comedey where she is romanced by and evenually falls in love with a guy (who is like something of a shy person and not hunk material). That might have worked. But there is no use specualting now. The movie's failure marked the end of Crawford's big screen hopes and was a showcase for Warner Brothers to keep greenlighting bad pictures until one day they became known to their critics as "AOL FILMS." |
| Rating | | | Date | August 29, 2004 | | Summary | Uh, did I mention the music score? | Content
| Yes, it's true that the story line was weak and the acting was NOT top notch. But, that wasn't what caught my attention. It was the opening and closing music theme. It still haunts me and is stuck in my mind. After I saw this movie the first time, I found myself humming the theme repeatedly for a week. And now, whenever I hear it while watching DirecTV, I stop whatever I'm doing to listen to the haunting melody - and I AM NOT easily impressed! |
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