I'll tell you why so serious

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

best movie i've ever seen.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

When KGB assassins target the life of Attorney Kate McQuean (Crawford) because of her associations with a mysterious boat, only one man can come to her rescue: Marion "Cobra" Cobretti -- er...Max Kirkpatrick (Baldwin)! According to the movie's tagline, he's a Cop on the Edge - or COTE, as we call them. With the baddies using all kinds of high tech (for 1995) gizmos to track their whereabouts, Max and Kate will always have to stay one step ahead of the highly-mobile evildoers. If that means a few car chases, stunts, shooting and...romance...then so be it. With nowhere to run and no one to trust, will our heroes be FAIR GAME for the bad guys? Hey, if we wanted to see movies that are Cobra (1986) without being Cobra, we'd probably just watch Black Cobra (1987), starring Fred Williamson. Because it's based on the same Paula Gosling novel that spawned one of our all-time favorite movies, Fair Game seemed very familiar to us. But instead of Stallone cutting pizza with scissors and Brigitte Nielsen posing with robots, we have one of the Baldwins and Cindy Crawford. Why does Hollywood always do this? What, Cobra wasn't good enough for them? They thought that they could improve upon perfection by haughtily going back to the original title, getting a big budget and a glossy look and no one would notice? Now, while this may be a needless run-through of Cobra, it's not without some charm of its own, but we felt we should get that out there as our opening salvo.As we've said before, there are many kinds of dumb when it comes to movies - dumb is not one size fits all. Thankfully, despite (or maybe because of) its retread status, Fair Game is very dumb; sort of a cross between "Hollywood Dumb" and "90's Dumb". The key question is: is it entertaining? And the answer is yes. The clichés are so broad and the plot so paint-by-numbers, I'm surprised the script wasn't written with a paintbrush and printed on an easel. It doesn't seem like there was ever an attempt to make it any other way. The dialogue may be groan-inducing, but the action scenes are solid and well-executed, if a bit on the silly side (Baldwin flying sideways while shooting).Maybe out of a guilty conscience, the movie can't seem to let go of its Stallone connections - at one point, someone calls Baldwin "Sly", even though his name is Max. Baldwin smokes cigars, clearly a reference to the fact that Marion Cobretti said smoking is bad for your health. In Cobra, Brigitte Nielsen was a model, so naturally that led to the casting of Cindy Crawford as her replacement. And this may be a stretch, but the whole 90's Dumb/Hollywood Dumb connection comes through clear as day when you look at the similarities between this and Stallone's The Specialist (1994). The natural humor of Cobra is replaced with "humor set-pieces"...but is that what kept this flying off video store shelves in the 90's? As for Cindy Crawford, hey, she gave it a try. If you're looking for us to criticize a non-actor for having a flat affect when speaking, you won't find that here. Lord knows we're used to seeing that around these parts. The fact that she's a lawyer in the movie is a bit of a leap; perhaps she could have been a model working at night for her law degree, or maybe a paralegal. But Crawford as a full-on lawyer was a bit much...yes, there is some light Crawford nudity, but is it really her? With all the 90's tech on display, it's easy to get distracted. The baddies know where to find her because they hack into her pizza account. HER PIZZA ACCOUNT. Well, if there's any takeaway from this movie it's this: don't have an online account with any local pizza joint. Instructive.Fair Game is 90's Hollywood action in a nutshell: dumb, stupid, and actually very entertaining. Fascinatingly, this is director Andrew Sipes's only directorial effort to date. Maybe he got depressed because he tried to out-Cobra Cobra, didn't do it, then gave up entirely. It may have been Fair Game for the critics, but who cares? This site is all about the fans, and if you see it on cable or find it cheap on DVD, check it out. You could do a LOT worse.

This movie was perhaps not the most accurate when it comes to effects, cars don't explode when they make contact with stationary objects, but isn't movies some entertainment? The movie caught on quite quickly, no slogging with getting to know characters just some prime action directly. Cindy isn't perhaps the most capable actress but she is fair to look at. I liked the movie, it tickled some laughs and gave my some entertaining moments. I rate this much higher than a lot of drama that seems to be the only thing people like these days. I might have things go another way if I where to shoot this movie, but the action was good, even though it was predictable sometimes.

Fair Game is one of those films that teaches you things you never realised were true until it happened on screen. Things like this:Explosions that blow up a mansion, and send someone flying into the water never leave a mark on that person. But they will have blood on their clothes, irregardless.Teams of expert assassins can be beaten by one cop.It's not humanly possible for a bad guy to kill someone without using a one-liner first. This may explain why they don't feel any remorse.Cars blow up on impact, regardless of where the impact is and what the impact is with. Unless of course our hero is in the car, in which case, it just catches fire.Perfect looking fake IDs aren't necessarily done with the use of any computers.Letters that look like 3s, but aren't, are found by typing in '3' into the computer.Employees of small stores swear freely and loudly while on the phone in the store.Continuity is not important. It can easily flow from late afternoon, before the sun starts to set at all, to well after the sun has set, in a matter of seconds.Choppers can't be heard over bad sex scene music and Cindy Crawford's disinterested moaning.Cops leave the safety off when they put their gun away.Trained assassins watch their target do a random Baldwin brother instead of actually doing their job.A bomb counts down from 2 minutes 57 seconds to 1 minute 47 seconds in just under 15 seconds. That bomb then proceeds to blow up everything except the room the bomb is located in.

This review contains extra bits of the plot! The heroine, played by Cindy Crawford as Miss Mcqueen is shot on Orlando Drive, while jogging. A cop, played by William Baldwin who is supposed to be Sergeant Kirkpatrick, is publicly humiliated by his girlfriend (played by Salmek Hayek), in a police station, before he has to interview Cindy Crawford. She goes home after a quick trip back to the office and just when Kirkpatrick shows up to get something signed, her house gets blown up by the Russians. This is when Steven Berkoff steps in to attack Baldwin and Crawford. A chase ensues because through a computer, they can track the couple's every movement. The baddies kill two police cops at a safehouse, several f.b.i. agents, bash two computer salesmen, and generally create mayhem. In the end, Crawford gets captured, and Baldwin comes to the save the day. The ship explodes with the remainder of the baddies, including Berkoff and that wraps up the film. It is quite a short film, with the British version lasting nearly an hour and a half. It also plays in widescreen and looks like a good but dud film of that era. If you like action, you will like this.