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I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Just wow brings out a thrilling experience and sheds light on the truths that have been masked.The truths about the WMD program and US invasion on Iraq,The abuse of power by the high government officials and how they prevaricate from the right questions.

This movie is in league with a slew of other politically driven plot lines which open with a lot of promise but fall flat on their faces thereafter as midway approaches. The way they show sean penn's assessment in iraq and build the story promises to be very interesting but ends up being being only that-just a build up. The director could have focused on the real plot and the political aspect more rather than the mundane honky-tonk of a troubled relationship and media-havoc wreck on an otherwise happy and functioning family. This was similar to kill the messenger where the intense storyline is dumped in pursuit of some sold-out monotonous repetitive and over explored melodramas of family unison with all the emotional jargon. So what if the central government proclaims information completely opposite to one article written by a comparative nobody (compared to them)in the daily papers. There's lot of intelligence on important matters being leaked, misinterpreted and falsely reported over through different channels of media for which there is no accountability. It seems ludicrous and over the top to me how the media's backlash creates unsettlement in the family-when you are in positions that they both are this kind of stress comes with the job- its nothing to loose sleep and break-up over. Boring and presumptous facets of the story are tweaked in lieu of the bigger picture.

Could a government be so-shortsightedly stupid as to out one of its own special agents as a punishment for her husband offering them some advice they didn't want to hear? Apparently so, when the government was the G.W. Bush administration, and what was at stake was the justification of a war in Iraq that the government had already decided to undertake regardless. That story is told in this film; but the movie is limited, because almost inevitably, it paints Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame as heroic, truth-telling victims - which may be true, but the scope for real drama is limited. At times in the story, when events are putting a strain on their marriage, the couple seem to be fighting over the principle of their two different visions of the noblest way to respond to the crisis they've been plunged into. The greatest tragedy, the betrayal of Plame's agents in the field, is relatively underplayed in this Washington-centred story. Sean Penn as Wilson (Plame's husband) plays his role as a self-righteous prig (in a way that I don't think is intended); Naomi Watts seems too super-cool as Plame to be believable, until the film cuts to actual footage of the real Plame giving testimony before Congress, and the likeness turns out to be exact. The film's worth watching if you want to learn the details of the scandal (and you should); but it's something less than Shakespearian in the telling.

In Fair Game from 2010, Valerie Plame Wilson (Naomi Watts) and her husband Joe (Sean Penn) learn the hard way what happens when you go up against the government. They ruin you, pure and simple.Wilson was a CIA operative and her husband had a successful business until Plame was outed as CIA by someone in the administration. Why? Because the U.S. insisted that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, even though all the research and interviews conducted by the CIA clearly indicated that there were not, and that the government had known it all along. As one scientist tells his sister, who was sent by Plame to get answers, "I work in a factory. They know this." Well, they may have known it, but if the government admitted that, what excuse would it have for going to war? Wilson's husband Joe speaks out against the administration and tells what he knows. As a result his wife is outed, vilified by organizations like Fox News, has her life threatened, and Joe Wilson's business dwindles down to nothing.Because of Joseph Wilson's refusal to stop talking, eventually, an investigation is launched. It is against the law for a government to do that to one of its agents. Of course Bush pardoned the perpetrator, and appeals were struck down by the Supreme Court.Naomi Watts bears a startling resemblance to Valerie Plame Wilson, and she does an excellent job playing a loyal, strong-willed, torn woman who considers her word her bond and tries to keep a low profile. Penn is brilliant as the angry, intense Wilson spoiling for a fight. My favorite scene is when he asks a group of young people, "Does anyone know Bush's eight words that brought us into the war with Iraq?" No hands. "How many here know my wife's name?" All hands.A scary, sobering story of underhanded tactics to take us to a place we never needed to be and to distract the nation's attention away from the subject.