Fair Game (2010)
Directed by Doug Liman
A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.
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By forcing Cage to remember movements and patterns to get himself and Rita across much of France to defeat a final enemy, director Doug Liman (“The Bourne Identity”) and writers Christopher McQuarrie (“The Usual Suspects”) and Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth (“Fair Game”) have assembled one of the video game-iest movies you’ll ever see.
With Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) as director and an angel-kissed script by Oscar winner Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) and the team of Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth (the Valerie Plame drama Fair Game), it's clear that complexity and ingenuity won't be in short supply.
Adapting Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s manga “All You Need Is Kill,” Liman and his screenwriters — Christopher McQuarrie (“The Usual Suspects”) and brothers Jez and John-Henry Butterworth (who worked with Liman on “Fair Game”) — set up the time-loop scenario with lucidity and sometimes a dash of humor.
Liman and his screenwriters — Christopher McQuarrie (“The Usual Suspects”) and Jez and John-Henry Butterworth (“Fair Game”) — make their concept feel fresh with smart setups and ambitious (if underdeveloped) themes.
The screenplay was adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s much-lauded 2004 novel “All You Need Is Kill” by Christopher McQuarrie, who knows his way around a mind-bending mystery scenario (“The Usual Suspects”), and by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, who previously worked with Liman on “Fair Game.”
But the CIA keep getting visited by Scooter Libby (David Andrews, "A Walk to Remember," "Dear John"), looking for WMD confirmation from Cheney's office and soon they hear Turner is briefing the President.
She secures the nervous cooperation of Zahraa (Liraz Charhi), a medical doctor who agrees to travel to Iraq and question her brother, Hammad (Khaled Nabawy, "Kingdom of Heaven").
Supporting performances are as naturalistic as photographer Seamus McGarvey's (2009's " The Soloist ") cinéma vérité lensing, with John C. Reilly (2011's " Cedar Rapids ") approaching Franklin as a father and husband more apt to trust his kids than his wife?a grievous mistake?and young Ashley Gerasimovich (2010's " Fair Game ") casting a light of contrasting innocence on Celia that Kevin has never known.