Wednesday, 9 July 2014

Naming a name

Fair Game (2010)

Directed by Doug Liman this film based on real events stars Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Noah Emmerich and Ty Burrell. A covert CIA agent has her identity exposed by the US government after her husband suggests they mislead the public on the case for the invasion of Iraq.

When dealing with this sort of material there is always going to be a question of accuracy and it does seem like this film does have a bias in mind. It is a shame that the plot takes what is an important issue and only shows one point of view rather than exploring the issue properly. As a spy film this is well made and well grounded but unfortunately is a bit more of a propaganda piece than it needed to be.


2/5

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