Review - Fair Game

One thing about the Valerie Plame case that’s always puzzled me is why nobody ever seems to have anything bad to say directly about Robert Novak. Sure, Scooter Libby is the big villain (along with a handful of other folks in the Bush/Cheney White House). But if a liberal pundit had disclosed secret information that ruined the career of a CIA operative and compromised the safety of agents cooperating with her in other countries, the conservative media would be all over the serious ethics concerns raised by such an irresponsible act. And yet for Novak barely even a mention. Oh well. Overall this is a typical Hollywood telling of a reasonably interesting tale. Naomi Watts is pretty. Sean Penn is earnest. The whole thing is preachy. But as a makes-you-mad story, it does the job. Mildly amusing