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Title: Fair Game (1995)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| William Baldwin | ... | Det. Max Kirkpatrick | |
| Cindy Crawford | ... | Kate McQuean | |
| Steven Berkoff | ... | Col. Ilya Pavel Kazak | |
| Christopher McDonald | ... | Lt. 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 | |
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her. Written by Starlight
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Before it careens into total silliness, `Fair Game' is a lot of fun. After the rather absurd attempted shooting of Crawford in the opening scene, `Fair Game' begins rather effectively examining the loss of privacy in the digital world, a fresh idea in 1995 (`Enemy of the State' didn't arrive till three years later). Crawford plays a lawyer specializing in civil cases. While helping one of his divorce clients she inadvertently falls under the scrutiny of a group of former KGB assassins. William Baldwin (`Backdraft')is the cop assigned to protect her. Baldwin looks like a cross between his brother Alec and Nicholas Cage; in other words, kind of goofy. Cindy Crawford looks like well, Cindy Crawford, one of the world's most beautiful women. Crawford received some pretty bad raps for this movie. That's really unfair, but not surprising, considering Hollywood's experience with supermodels. In the 50s, they used to dub supermodel Suzy Parker. Crawford's considerably better than that. Her voice and line readings remind me of early Farrah Fawcett.
The big problem here is neither Crawford nor Baldwin. It's a script that would have us believe former KGB operatives would miss Crawford with a machine gun as she stands by a storefront with no cover. It's a script that would have us believe KGB agents would blow up Crawford's house with C4 to cover a COVERT operation. It's the script that would give Baldwin endless supplies of 9mm ammunition, while he leaves behind machine guns and `street sweepers'. It's a script that has the intelligent, sensible Crawford running from Baldwin, her only ally. It's a script that would have us believe the feisty Crawford would surrender without a fight, etc., etc.
Production values for `Fair Game' are top notch, great color photography, sound, music, editing and stunts. Had producer Joel Silver substituted Jackie Chan for Billy Baldwin, `Fair Game' would have made a first rate martial arts movie, even with its other shortcomings. Course, I'm not sure Cindy Crawford would've `gotten naked' for Jackie Chan. Well, topless, anyway.
`Fair Game' is a `dumb blonde' of a movie, but Crawford is anything but dumb. She deserved better and deserves another opportunity to prove her mettle as an actress. If she made another movie, I'd go see it, even if she become closer to an "8" than a "10".
Nonetheless, `Fair Game' is, at worst, a `fair' movie. I give it a `5'.