Fair Game (1995)

User Rating:

3.8/10   

Director:

Andrew Sipes

Writers (WGA):

Paula Gosling (novel)
Charlie Fletcher (screenplay)

Release Date:

3 November 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Tagline:

He's a cop on the edge. She's a woman with a dangerous secret. And now they're both...

Plot:

Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her.

Plot Keywords:

Villain | Child | Argument | Beautiful Woman | Daughter

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

William Baldwin	...	Det. Max Kirkpatrick
Cindy Crawford	...	Kate McQuean
Steven Berkoff	...	Colonel Ilya Kazak
Christopher McDonald	...	Lieutenant Meyerson
Miguel Sandoval	...	Emilio Juantorena
Johann Carlo	...	Jodi Kirkpatrick
Salma Hayek	...	Rita
John Bedford Lloyd	...	Det. Louis Aragon
Olek Krupa	...	Zhukov
Jenette Goldstein	...	Rosa
Marc Macaulay	...	Navigator
Sonny Carl Davis	...	Baker
Frank Medrano	...	Graybera
Don Yesso	...	Beanpole
Paul Dillon	...	Hacker

MPAA:

Rated R for intermittent strong violence, language and a scene of sexuality.

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Russian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | Argentina:13 | Peru:14 | Iceland:16 | USA:R (certificate #34166) | Netherlands:12 (TV rating) | Philippines:R-18 | Australia:M | Finland:K-18 | Germany:16 (w) | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:M18 | South Korea:15 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Coral Gables, Florida, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

The Paula Gosling novel the movie is based on was previously the basis for the 1986 movie Cobra (1986) with Sylvester Stallone.

Goofs:

Factual errors: If there were such a thing as a heat sensor, it would also detect hot water pipes when they had recently been used; and someone taking a cold shower would not seem to vanish, because the warm core of their body would still be detectable behind the cooled skin.

Quotes:

Adam: [nervous] Are you looking for hardware... or is it software you're interested in?
Kate: [sexy] Hardware. I was hoping to demo your unit.
Adam: I'd have to... boot up first.
Kate: [sexy] Well, why....don'cha?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The King of Queens: Fair Game (#2.16)" (2000)

Ok...So maybe models are wooden, lifeless creatures...

I like Cindy Crawford. I really do. I respect the class she has maintained in an often classless fashion and modeling industry. But some people should stick to what they know.

Cindy, my God! In this movie, you were just in your lovely apartment overlooking the water. Your apartment is then blown up, you are blown off the balcony into the water, your cat is toast and all your possessions are gone. Oh, and by the way, a bunch of very bad people are now trying to shoot you dead. You get out of the cold water, run for your life and get taken to a safe house where the 2nd rate Baldwin asks you `How do you feel?' And Cindy says with the intensity of a heroin addict, `Like my life just exploded. What is this place, Motel Hell?' She said it like she was reading the phone book! A real actress would have been looking at the cop like he was nuts! And she would have delivered the lines accordingly. It got worse.

Did you see at the very first scene in the movie where Cindy's character is jogging and gets shot? Did you notice her slowing down to hit her mark and wait for the shot? I've never heard or seen anyone more stilted and lifeless except for a really bored telemarketer.

The writing was just BAD, and the movie was just about look how good Cindy looks after being dumped in water and having no shower. Notice her lips still had color? Did they have the long-lasting stuff back then?

Luckily it wasn't the kind of bad where you can't sit and laugh at it. You can sit and laugh at this one. In fact, you don't have a choice.