"Fair Game" has a very good real material: how a weak woman who has become an innocent victim in a political game fights against the entire state apparatus in order to protect her family. However, in this major subject of political criticism of husbands and wives from incomprehension to misunderstanding to struggle together, the lack of shaping the strong female role that should have been strengthened weakened the criticism of the entire incident. The second collaboration between actor Sean Justin Penn and Naomi Watts did not reproduce the rival drama in " 21 Grams ", and the emotional drama between the two only remained superficial, and the "performance" component was more obvious
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Director Doug Liman hopes to express too many appeals in the film, but it does not appear to have a particularly brilliant theme. Each theme has a remarkable pen, but when combined, it does not show the overall tension of the plot. Obviously It is directly caused by the weakness of the script in this respect. Doug Liman has previously won in action and thriller films. The action of the camera (referring to tracking shooting and rapid conversion of the camera) is what he is good at, but in this movie, he is in the first half of the "investigating the truth" part and the back In the "joint resistance" part of the film, the director still uses the shooting method of action thrillers on the camera, without considering the different performance points in the political thriller, which leads to the confusion caused on the image screen, which becomes a failure caused by the director's inertia.
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"Fair Game" has a strong lineup of stars. Naomi Watts and Sean Justin Penn are both Hollywood-level actors, but their acting skills are not particularly outstanding, probably due to the large and complicated lines. The narrative of the story is also nothing special. A very standard Hollywood biographical film does not exceed the amazing scheduling or methods of real events. At most, it is a passing restoration
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