In a small but memorable role, super-busy Salma Hayek portrays Kirkpatrick’s angry ex, who storms into the police station to argue with Kirkpatrick, embarrassing him in front of his friends. He exhibits a lazy cool charm and is a good counterbalance to Crawford’s inexperienced thesping. Had he began his career a decade earlier, he could have easily been a star of action films in the Bruce Willis mold. (Nothing wrong with that!)īaldwin seems at ease in the role of Kirkpatrick. I always remember him as one of the Baldwin brothers that isn’t Alec, and he seemed to alternate between roles in “decent” projects and trashier, lower budget fare. William Baldwin does fine as heroic cop Max Kirkpatric. It never strays too far into the jumbled-up-funny territory your favorite non-major B-films do, despite the movie’s more recent reputation. And by that I mean it adheres to standard action formula of the time, which catered to moviegoers expecting as much. Structurally, the film works pretty well. Later, there’s even the sinking of a giant ship! Sipes got his money’s worth out of that $50M budget, which elevated the proceedings from looking too cheap. There are good action set pieces featuring spectacular explosions and stunt work, car chases, shootouts, and a tense sequence where Baldwin’s Kirkpatrick chases and boards a moving train. And generally, the film delivers on that. In Fair Game, first-time feature director Andrew Sipes (another example of the inexperience on display here) does what any green director would do in this case - focus on the action and make Crawford look good. She was also no stranger to Hollywood, having been married to Richard Gere at the time (from 1991-95). (Forbes named her the highest paid model on the planet the same year this film was released.) Fair Game boasted a roughly $50M budget, and at the time Cindy Crawford was still an internationally known “brand” at the top of the supermodel game.
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It feels odd remembering it as a major Hollywood offering when so many regard it as a trashy(ish) B movie today, probably thinking it was a straight-to-video release. And neither did many others who pitched in for the $11.5M box office haul it earned in 1995.įor a certain portion of the population, it didn’t matter if the acting was subpar the novelty of seeing one of the world’s most renowned models lead a film–a super model even!–elevated this typical chase thriller to a curiosity for the masses. Viewing it two decades later (without the beer), it’s easier to see how much of a stretch it was making Crawford a leading lady.īut you know what? It’s CINDY FRICKIN’ CRAWFORD! So we didn’t care. I recall enjoying this film when I watched it with my three college roommates via VHS rental in late ’95 or early ’96, most likely cruising through a 6-pack of beer. (She’s had a few parts in other films and TV, usually playing herself.) It’s painfully obvious she’s not a great actress her expression is nonchalant, her delivery wooden. But the bottom line is that they’re after her, and that’s all you need to know to enjoy this little pulp culture exercise.įair Game will forever be remembered as Cindy Crawford’s first (and only) major film role. The above synopsis is about as good as it can be explained, because for the love of God, after watching it for the first time in over a decade, I still can’t figure out what the hell they’re chasing McQuean for. Will they capture her? Can Kirkpatrick keep her safe? Will viewers remember any of it when the credits roll? Kirkpatrick goes on the run to protect McQuean when she’s targeted by ex-members of the KGB interested in a ship owned by a Cuban man who may lose it in a divorce case being pursued by McQuean, who happens to be a civil law attorney. The film stars real-life supermodel Cindy Crawford as attorney Kate McQuean and William Baldwin as Max Kirkpatrick, a Florida police officer. By Review Staffįair Game, the 1995 chase film from producer Joel Silver, is a strange mesh of good and bad, featuring talent both experienced and inexperienced resulting in a B movie dressed up in A-movie skin.
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