Fair Game (1995)

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

Director:

Andrew Sipes

Writers:

Paula Gosling (novel), Charlie Fletcher (screenplay)

Stars:

William Baldwin, Cindy Crawford, Steven Berkoff

4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
William Baldwin	...	Det. Max Kirkpatrick
Cindy Crawford	...	Kate McQuean
Steven Berkoff	...	Colonel Ilya Pavel 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

Storyline

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

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Plot Keywords:

female lawyer | spy | based on novel | woman in jeopardy | male rear nudity | 

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Taglines:

He's a cop on the edge. She's a woman with a dangerous secret. They've been targeted by the Russian mob, and now they're both...FAIR GAME.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Romance | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

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

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Russian

Release Date:

3 November 1995 (USA)

Also Known As:

Atracción explosiva

Filming Locations:

Coral Gables, Florida, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$50,000,000 (estimated)

Gross USA:

$11,534,477

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$26,134,477

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros., Silver Pictures, Warner Bros.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The age and date of birth of Kate McQuean (Cindy Crawford, according to computer screen information about the character's identity in the film, gives her character's date of birth as 15th March 1969, making her character about twenty-six years old around the time of the release year of the movie. Similarly, the age and date of birth of Max Kirkpatrick (William Baldwin), according to computer screen information about the character's identity in the film, is 23rd June 1965, making his character about thirty years old around the time of the release year of the movie.

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Goofs

During the highway car chase, a SUV is set on fire, but in the next shot from the front of the tow truck, it is not burning.

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Quotes

Ilya Kazak: [after Juantorena failed to kill Kate with the home explosion] I'm getting most annoyed by your petty incompetence.
Emilio Juantorena: Hey, you seem to forget you tap phones for a living, I tap banks!
[Kazak cocks his .45]
Emilio Juantorena: If it wasn't for me you'd be stuck in Havana pulling bananas out of your ass!
Emilio Juantorena: [realizes a gun is pointed at his head] Oh, what. You're going to shoot me.
Ilya Kazak: Yes.
[shoots him]
Ilya Kazak: You! You know how to use a computer as well as him.
Zhukov: DA!

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Alternate Versions

European release was 8 minutes longer, less violence, but more sex/nudity.

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Connections

Featured in 20 to 1: Sizzling Superstars (2009)

User Reviews

Pain has a new name: Fair Game

This is bad, very bad. It must have sounded like a good idea at the time: "Die Hard With Legal Mumbo-Jumbo" with a twist: we'll have a sexy model as the star.

Erm, it sounds good on paper, and perhaps it would have been a good idea if they hadn't screwed the damn thing up by giving us a weak script, even weaker plot, weaker villians and then give up on the sexy model as John McClane and turn her into a damsel in distress.

It almost feels like Producer, Joel Silver is satirizing or parodying himself in the constant need for set-piece action after set-piece action strung together on the weakest thing to ever grace the screen.

Everything that hits something explodes, cars hit telegraph poles and explode violently, tree's that are in the way explode even more violently...its almost too much to take in. I know action is what was driving hollywood around the early 90s - but this is just TOO much.

Anyway, the film pretty much nose-dives when Crawford - who looks stunning - turns into a damsel in distress with Baldwin acting like he's painting by numbers - just doing the thing because either Stallone dropped out or because of the money.

Not even the "sex-scenes" can save this terrible affair. Not even Berkov, now type-cast as Russian bad guys, can save it. Everything hurts...everything. The end explosion looks kinda cool, but it can't mask the fact that this film is flimsy at best - and at worst? Well, I just don't wanna think about that.

They could have made it a lot better than this trash. A die-hard with a woman as the hero could have been done a lot better. Its a shame with the buckloads of money they wasted on this trash seems to have gone onto Crawford's make-up.

My Rating: 0/10